Abstract
The term “the Grid” was coined in the mid-1990s to denote a proposed distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering [4]. Considerable progress has since been made on the construction of such an infrastructure (e.g., [1,6,7) but the term “Grid” has also been conflated, at least in popular perception, to embrace everything from advanced networking to artificial intelligence. One might wonder whether the term has any real substance and meaning. Is there really a distinct “Grid problem” and hence a need for new “Grid technologies” ? If so, what is the nature of these technologies, and what is their domain of applicability? While numerous groups have interest in Grid concepts and share, to a significant extent, a common vision of Grid architecture, we do not see consensus on the answers to these questions.
Chapter PDF
References
J. Beiriger, W. Johnson, H. Bivens, S. Humphreys, R. Rhea. Constructing the ASCI Grid. Proc. 9th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 2000, IEEE Press.
K. Czajkowski, S. Fitzgerald, I. Foster, C. Kesselman. Grid Information Services for Distributed Resource Sharing. Proc. 10th IEEE Intl. Symp. on High Performance Distributed Computing, IEEE Press, 2001. http://www.globus.org/research/papers/MDS-HPDC.pdf
I. Foster. Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid. Nature Web Matters, 2000. http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html.
I. Foster, C. Kesselman (eds.). The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure,Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
I. Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke. The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. Intl. Journal Supercomputer Applications, 2001. http://www.globus.org/research/papers/anatomy.pdf.
W Johnston, D. Gannon, W. Nitzberg. Grids as Production Computing Environments: The Engineering Aspects of NASA’s Information Power Grid. Proc. 8th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999, IEEE Press.
R. Stevens, P. Woodward, T. DeFanti, C. Catlett. From the I-WAY to the National Technology Grid. Communications of the ACM, 40(11):50–61. 1997.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Foster, I. (2001). The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. In: Sakellariou, R., Gurd, J., Freeman, L., Keane, J. (eds) Euro-Par 2001 Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44681-8_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44681-8_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-42495-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-44681-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive