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Defining the grid: a snapshot on the current view
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Defining the grid: a snapshot on the current view
Heinz Stockinger1 
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Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Vital-IT Group), Bâtiment Génopode, Quartier Sorge, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland |
Published online: 17 March 2007
Abstract
The term “Grid” was introduced in early 1998 with the launch of the book “The Grid. Blueprint for a new computing infrastructure”.
Since that time many technological changes have occurred in both hardware and software. One of the most important ones seems
to be the wide acceptance of Web services. Although the basic Grid idea has not changed much in the last decade, many people
have different ideas about what a Grid really is. In the following article we report on a survey where we invited many people
in the field of Grid computing to give us their current understanding.
Keywords Grid computing - Service oriented architecture - Web services - Standards - Survey
“Computational Grids are the equivalent to the electrical power Grid” Foster I, Kesselman C (1998) The Grid. Blueprint for
a new computing infrastructure. Morgan Kaufman.
“With Web Services we allow a thousand flowers to bloom. With a Grid we organize the planting and growth of a crop of plants
to make harvesting easier” [MA].
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