[ Thanks to Kelly
for this link. ]
“Many developers think that the Grid could redefine the nature
of computing just like the Internet reshaped the way people
communicate. The Grid could also change the way people from
different organizations and locations work together to solve a
specific problem like design collaboration. This is a typical
dynamic resource sharing and information exchange. The Grid
computing platform allows resource discovery, data management,
scheduling of online resources, and security in a distributed
environment.“The driving force behind Grid technology standardization is the
Global Grid Forum (GGF, see Resources). The integration of Grid and
Web services is technically complicated, but natural. The GGF is a
community-initiated forum of individual researchers and
practitioners who work on distributed computing, or “grid”
technologies. GGF is the result of a merger of the Grid Forum, the
eGrid European Grid Forum, and the Grid community in the Asia
Pacific. GGF efforts are also aimed at the development of a broadly
based Integrated Grid Architecture that can serve to guide the
research, development, and deployment activities of the emerging
Grid communities. The Open Grid Service Interface Working Group of
the GGF is defining the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA).“OGSA is a distributed interaction and computing architecture
based around the Grid service to assure interoperability on
heterogeneous systems so that different types of systems can
communicate and share information. It leverages the emerging Web
services to define the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL, see
Resources) interfaces. All services adhere to specified Grid
service interfaces and behaviors…”