What Applications Run on a Grid?
Certain types of applications have already been very successful using grid computing. Scientific projects, such as the SETI@home project run by the University of Berkeley in California, have been a spectacular success. Here the Internet is used to send small packets of data to over 4 million PC users in a grid. The results are analyzed on the client processor and sent back to Berkley for further analysis, and another packet sent for processing. This project has been running since early 1999 and the statistics are astonishing.
Since it's start in May 1999 over 4.8 million people have signed on from over 230 countries.
At any given moment, 475 thousand machines are working fulltime on the problem.
Results are being ...
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