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Over the past decade there has been a huge shift in the way we perceive and utilize computing resources. Previously, computing needs were typically achieved by using localised resources and infrastructures and high-end scientific calculations would be performed on dedicated parallel machines. However, nowadays, we are seeing an increasing number of wide-area distributed-computing applications, which has led to the development of many different types of middleware, libraries and tools that allow geographically distributed resources to be unified into a single application. This approach to distributed computing has come under a wide number of different names, such as metacomputing, scalable computing, global computing, Internet computing and, more recently, Grid computing.2
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Taylor, I.J., Harrison, A.B. (2009). Grid Computing. In: Taylor, I.J., Harrison, A.B. (eds) From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-123-7_9
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