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Grid Computing Explained

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. The problem with Grids by duffbeer703 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The big problem that I see with "Grid Computing" is that 99% of articles about it point out that it is cool and leave it at that. A few articles will point out how GM does rendering for CAD/CAM stuff or how Folding@Home works.

    My question is what business problems can be solved with grids? Most people do not work in scientific computing facilities and most engineering departments are overseas anyway.

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