Editing Client–server model (section)

=== Examples ===
In the case of [[distributed computing]] projects such as [[SETI@home]] and the [[Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search]], while the bulk of the operations occur on the client side, the servers are responsible for coordinating the clients, sending them data to analyze, receiving and storing results, providing reporting functionality to project administrators, etc.  In the case of an Internet-dependent user application like [[Google Earth]], while querying and display of map data takes place on the client side, the server is responsible for permanent storage of map data, resolving user queries into map data to be returned to the client, etc.

Web applications and [[web service|services]] can be implemented in almost any language, as long as they can return data to standards-based web browsers (possibly via intermediary programs) in formats which they can use.