Re: oracle grid

Like a lot of other stuff in out industry, much depends on the definition du jour, and that is heavily influenced by the marketing organizations.

Moving a bit from commercial organizations for a definition, a relevant paper to help understand what 'the Grid' really is, I recommend the paper:

The Anatomy of the Grid
Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke

found at http://www.globus.org/research/papers/anatomy.pdf ... After describing the dilemma (quoted below), they provide some answers.

"The term 'the Grid' was coined in the mid1990s to denote a proposed distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering [34]. Considerable progress has since been made on the construction of such an infrastructure (e.g., [10, 16, 46, 59]), but the term Grid has also been conflated, at least in popular perception, to embrace everything from advanced networking to artificial intelligence. One might wonder whether the term has any real substance and meaning."

/Hans Received on Mon Sep 20 2004 - 10:45:32 CDT