Part 2: Grid Computing Worldwide Initiatives

     

The last decade has introduced a number of changes to the way that computing facilities have been traditionally utilized. The emergence of distributed computing and its widespread acceptance has had an unprecedented impact on the utility of computing facilities.

Internet computing emerged as the strong motivating factor to decentralize these computing facilities. As of now, the Internet, and hence wide area networking, has become the ubiquitous standard for the electronic world. By the beginning of this century, the wide area distributed computing discipline has taken a new turn with more emphasis on controlled and coordinated resource sharing among dynamic groups of organizations and/or individuals.

In Chapter 2, we discuss the contributions of the major Grid Computing organizations that are working on an agreeable open process, standardization, and interoperable implementation of the grid to enable the community for manageable resource sharing and coordination. The focus of Chapter 3 is the so-called "grid problem," a real grid problem, and how the grid architecture is defined to solve the problem.

In this part of the book, we explore the concepts around virtual organizations and how the new grid architecture is adequate to understand and solve the complex problems of virtualization of resources and organizational grouping. In Chapter 4, we go through the grid computing road map where we will discuss how the grid is evolving with more emphasis on open standard process, service orientation, and knowledge sharing. This includes an overview on the existing technology fabric for the grid, the evolving service-oriented architecture model with more interoperable solutions, and finally the knowledge-based semantic grid with more focus on interchangeable metadata.



Grid Computing (IBM Press On Demand Series)
Windows Vista(TM) Plain & Simple (Bpg-Plain & Simple)
ISBN: 131456601
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 118

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