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Grids and Grid Technologies for Wide-Area Distributed Computing

PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons
Format675.9KB PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5Date added01 Aug 2002
Topics High Performance Computing, Java, Web Services
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The early efforts in Grid computing started as a project to link supercomputing sites, but have now grown far beyond their original intent. In fact, many applications can benefit from the Grid infrastructure, including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput computing, and of course distributed supercomputing. This paper aims to present the state-of-the-art of Grid computing and attempts to survey the major international efforts in developing this emerging technology.

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