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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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CORBA? by TheRealMindChild · 2004-02-09 03:37 · Score: 3, Interesting

CORBA doesn't even FIT into this article, and it is painfully clear when you read it. If this wasn't a free object model, I would say the autor is stretching to sell something, but since that can't be the case, then what is it?

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1. Re:CORBA? by roboros · 2004-02-09 06:05 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Oddly enough, WSDL and SOAP are mentioned, but never really discussed. And the would be probably better suited than CORBA.
  
  WSDL and SOAP are used in version 3 of the Globus Toolkit, which is a well-known open source grid toolkit. In that version, all grid services are Web Services.