Grid Computing Meets Web Services?

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday September 10, 2002 @05:21PM 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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Re:grid computing sites by Zach+Garner · 2002-09-11 01:14 · Score: 3, Insightful

No, "grid" comes from "Power Grid" which indicates how a computational grid is intended to be used.

Plug the organizations computers and other resources into the grid (these are analog to power plants). When you, at your workstation, need to do something computationally expensive or otherwise use the grid's resources, your computer uses the grid to do the work.

You plug in your radio to the power grid, press the button and you've got music, instantly. You plug in your accounting program to the computational grid, press the button and you've got complex stockmarket forcasts, instantly.