Grid Computing in Industry: Improving Efficiency and Creating New Business

by Alex Alexander, Roberta Gigon

Having emerged in 2001-2002, the concept of the grid is relatively new and lacks a universally agreed-upon definition. Consequently, one of the difficulties in discussing the benefits, challenges, and enabling technologies of a grid is that the term does not mean the same thing to everyone. In the ensuing discussion, we adopt the more rigorous definition proposed by Ian Foster, one of the architects of the grid at Argonne National Laboratory. For Foster, a grid is a system that satisfies the following three conditions [4]:

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Grid Computing in Industry: Improving Efficiency and Creating New Business April 2005

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