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Grid Computing Explained

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 9, 2004 @03:11AM from the learn-more-about-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What's different between Grid computing and P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE? This article provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between Grid computing and such distributed computing systems as P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE."

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Plan9 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-09 03:56 · Score: 1, Informative

For a real nice grid system, take a look at Plan9. Very nice, well-designed system.
Re:OT: Is there a Java-based P2P system? by pcraven · 2004-02-09 05:32 · Score: 2, Informative

Well, the article was about grids, not p2p systems.

Here's one toolkit for creating grid programs with java.

Personally, I just don't see grid computing work where you ship your stuff out to 3rd party computers. There is the network latency, and the security aspects. But it might work for a company to maintain their own grid. That I could see. Maybe.