Term sometimes covering general Distributed Computing, othertimes focuses on Parallel Processing over the net.

http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html

http://www-1.ibm.com/grid/

[Open Grid Forum]/[OGF] - http://www.gridforum.org/

http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/

PyThon notes:

• http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/gr-dw-grpintro-i.html

[OGSI] - [Open Grid Services Infrastructure]

• https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsi-wg

• http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~humphrey/GCG/ogsi.net.html

• http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/Research/AtoZ/ILCT

• GloBus http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/grid/library/gr-gt3/

[Grid Alliance]

• reference model http://www.gridalliance.org/en/workgroups/ReferenceModel.asp

Some real examples:

• [Seti At Home]

• [Folding At Home]

  • Nov'2007: record for largest computer, assisted by [PS3] users

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