Who's pushing this idea is researchers. Witness the TeraGrid, the BioGrid, the Fermilab ACP. Companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and HP, are simply involved because they are convinced there will be a larger market in the future. These companies have done quite well with the current "revenue model".
I have spent some time reading "The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure" by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, as well as the OGSA/OGSA standards being worked on by the Global Grid Frome . This is how I make the distinction.
Distributed computing is a collection of ideas and practices of which Grid computing is a subset. Distributed computing involves any type of computational resource sharing over a range of couplings. Grid computing, basically, is the idea of taking the solutions distributed computing has come up with so far and making implementing them over widely distributed networks in a standard framework that will make sharing easy, flexible, and powerful. At the same time, faster computers, more available storage and higher bandwidth networks are pushing the development of new distributed technologies for applications suited to a standardized, available computational grid. These applications include physics simulations, tele-immersion (sort of a networked virtual reality), climate modeling, drug discovery, etc. Yeah these are all research applications. Just like the original Internet, the research community is a natural first audience. It will be interesting to see how companies and, eventually, consumers take advantage of the Grid in the future.
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I'm American.
2. Napoleon
3. Charles de Gaulle
4. Marquis de Lafayette (ok, he was a junior officer in the French army and a major general in the American army during the revolution).
Also, what's your point? I was just saying that the comment about French mathematics was cheap and ignorant.
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I'm guessing you are American. Quick - name five American mathematicians:
John Nash
Andrew Wiles
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Now - name five French mathematicians:
Blaise Pascal
Henri Lebesgue
Pierre de Fermat
de Moivre
Eugene Catalan
L'Hopital
Rene Descartes
This may say more about the relative ages of France and the U.S. and my knowledge of American mathematicians. Still, what pure spite.
i wrote a program. it became very popular. i started a company, got sued, and we slowly died. in the meantime i dropped out of college, and am now "taking a break".
humorous.
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Distributed computing is a collection of ideas and practices of which Grid computing is a subset. Distributed computing involves any type of computational resource sharing over a range of couplings. Grid computing, basically, is the idea of taking the solutions distributed computing has come up with so far and making implementing them over widely distributed networks in a standard framework that will make sharing easy, flexible, and powerful. At the same time, faster computers, more available storage and higher bandwidth networks are pushing the development of new distributed technologies for applications suited to a standardized, available computational grid. These applications include physics simulations, tele-immersion (sort of a networked virtual reality), climate modeling, drug discovery, etc. Yeah these are all research applications. Just like the original Internet, the research community is a natural first audience. It will be interesting to see how companies and, eventually, consumers take advantage of the Grid in the future.
I'm American. 2. Napoleon 3. Charles de Gaulle 4. Marquis de Lafayette (ok, he was a junior officer in the French army and a major general in the American army during the revolution). Also, what's your point? I was just saying that the comment about French mathematics was cheap and ignorant.
Quick - name five American mathematicians:
Now - name five French mathematicians:
This may say more about the relative ages of France and the U.S. and my knowledge of American mathematicians. Still, what pure spite.
i wrote a program. it became very popular. i started a company, got sued, and we slowly died. in the meantime i dropped out of college, and am now "taking a break". humorous.