GRID AND DISTRIBUTED NETWORK TO HANDLE MAMMOTH TASKS
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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.