The current grid technology can be viewed as an extension or application of this framework to create a more generic resource sharing context. Grid technology is widely emerging. Still, there is an eminent shortage of real grid users, due to the absence of two important catalysts. A widely accepted vision on how applications can substantially benefit from grids, and second a toolkit of higher-level grid services, tailored to application needs. The grid aims to provide fundamentally new capabilities for applications to exploit the power of grid computing. We present a architecture of grid, middleware and its application technology, a large-scale, grid-empowered applications and then discuss grid general architecture and its grid application. We illustrate how applications can be grid-enabled and discuss grid as an tool for computing services.
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Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Date of Conference: 12-14 Oct. 2008