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Grid Computing Meets Web Services?

Posted by Hemos on from the combine-'em-together dept.

jgeelan writes "According to an article in the current issue of Web Services Journal, by ex-IBM, ex-Vitria Technology, ex-IONA middleware maven Dirk Hamstra, the open source initiative known as OGSA, the Open Grid Services Architecture, is poised to bring utility-based computing a step closer. "The combination of Web services and grid computing," Hamstra writes, "virtualizes networked resources using common computing standards, making them accessible to a larger audience." Amazing what a little R&D money from IBM, a prime grid-computing mover, can achieve."

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  1. Finally a relevant Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Grid Computing = a Beowulf Cluster.

  2. What a great idea! by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now Saddam Hussein can run his nuclear bomb simulations without having to violate US export laws.

  3. Web services? by dpt · · Score: 2, Funny


    I will now announce the following uses for web services in alphabetical order:

    * Making your broadband connection perform like a dial-up (thanks to XML).

    That is all, thank you.
    </german accent>