Towards a World Wide Grid?

Roland Piquepaille writes "In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT Results will report about the g-Eclipse project. As the scientists said, 'the g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. The framework will be built on top of the reliable eco-system of the Eclipse community to enable a sustainable development.' The project started in July 2006 and was successfully completed in June 2008 for a total cost of €2.5 million, including a EU contribution of €1.96 million."

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Re:huh?

[mrfriendly]

Uh, yeah, but did you know I can spell your name in hex digits?!? - DEADBEEF

Re:huh?

[ShadoxPrime]

The engineers where I used to work would always set the MAC addresses on their devices to stuff like that. They had some really clever/disturbing ones.

WTF, just WTF?

[zappepcs]

This week the RIAA decided to sue Sourceforge. How is a world wide grid going to help anyone? Who is going to stand up and tell the **AA to fuckoffanddie. While this sounds like a good idea, there are many legal problems to work out as the RIAA have demonstrated this week.

Even if they find a way to make grid computing attractive for many applications, who has responsibility? There are economics to think of etc. If money was no object, we could all travel to work in a limo. If traffic was no problem, we could all leave home within minutes of having to be at work. If security was no problem we would not need locks on our doors.

I'm not saying that grid computing has no place, but it does not seem feasible in the near term for most people/entities due to one or more of the many concerns. Does anyone know of a link or many links that show why this should not be a concern?