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Grid Computing



INTRODUCTION
The popularity of the Internet as well as the availability of powerful
computers and high-speed network technologies as low-cost commodity
components is changing the way we use computers today. These technology
opportunities have led to the possibility of using distributed computers as a
single, unified computing resource, leading to what is popularly known as Grid
computing. The term Grid is chosen as an analogy to a power Grid that provides
consistent, pervasive, dependable, transparent access to electricity irrespective
of its source. A detailed analysis of this analogy can be found in. This new
approach to network computing is known by several names, such as
metacomputing, scalable computing, global computing, Internet computing, and
more recently peer-to- peer (P2P) computing.