Grid Computing Learning Journal

Concepts and Architecture

Grid concepts and technologies were originally developed to enable resource sharing within scientific collaborations, first within early gigabit/sec testbeds and then on increasingly larger scales.

VO (virtual organization) : mutually distrustful participants with varying degrees of prior relationship (perhaps none at all) want to share resources in order to perform some task. Furthermore, sharing is about more than simply document exchange: it can involve direct access to remote software, computers, data, sensors, and other resources. For example, members of a consortium may provide access to specialized software and data and/or pool their computational resources.