GRID AND DISTRIBUTED NETWORK TO HANDLE MAMMOTH TASKS

d hardware and software resources” [1] In 2001, Foster, Kesselman and Tuecke refined their definition of a Grid to “coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations” [2]. This latest definition is the one most commonly used today to abstractly define a Grid. Half a decade ago, Ian Foster later produced a checklist with three parts [3] that helps to understand exactly what can be identified as a Grid system. The first part to check off is that there is coordinated resource sharing with no centralized point of control that the users reside within different administrative domains. If this is not true, probably this is not a Grid system.