developerWorks: Developing Grid Computing Applications, Part 2

“A Grid solution is created to allow applications to share data
and computing resources as well as to access them across multiple
organizations in an efficient way. When we build a distributed
solution, we need standard ways to share and access applications
across multiple locations–a practice that becomes even more
significant as a company grows. One of the key concerns is to find
more standard and scalable ways to integrate data and other
computing resources with applications in a distributed
environment.

“Today’s traditional software-based Grid solutions typically
need to be installed behind a firewall. These ‘local’ Grid
solutions are not only platform-dependent, but they also have
incompatible communication protocols. In addition, they offer
little integration mechanisms for communicating with other ‘local’
Grids. It is very hard to add new applications from different
vendors to the existing ‘local’ Grid due to proprietary interfaces.
Another issue is to find a way to quickly and easily integrate with
external business processes and services provided by different
‘local’ Grids using a secure, low-cost, and manageable
solution…”

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developerWorks: Introduction of a Grid Architecture and Toolkit for
Building Grid Solutions(Nov 06, 2002)