The grid harnesses the computational power of multiple heterogeneous computers, interconnected via the Internet. To satisfy the demands of compute-intensive applications, the grid nodes comprise computers of various architectures, such as high-performance servers with shared memory, distributed-memory clusters and ordinary desktop PCs. Sometimes, the grid is referred to as a new computing infrastructure [aFK98] or the Internet of the future.
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Dünnweber, J., Gorlatch, S. (2009). Introduction. In: Higher-Order Components for Grid Programming. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00841-2_1
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