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This talk’s title is purposely simplistic. We want to use the opportunity to discuss Grid in a very realistic, broad-reaching, and practical way. Grid’s most important role is largely misunderstood, as is its ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival).
We’ll consider the key enablers for Grids and the mega-trends that are acting as forcing functions on Grid. A key point is that Grid, in the future, is largely about SOAs (Service Oriented Architectures) and less so about scientific computing.
We’ll discuss its fit with commercial IT, with robust management of IT resources, including services themselves, and of the need for open standards.
Above all, it is hoped this talk will be provocative, illuminating, and thought-provoking.
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Astfalk, G. (2004). About Grid. In: Jin, H., Pan, Y., Xiao, N., Sun, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2004. GCC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_5
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