Chapter 1. Introduction
Grid computing is gaining a lot of attention within the IT industry. Though it has been used within the academic and scientific community for some time, standards, enabling technologies, toolkits and products are becoming available that allow businesses to utilize and reap the advantages of grid computing.
As with many emerging technologies, you will find almost as many definitions of grid computing as the number of people you ask. However, one of the most used toolkits for creating and managing a grid environment is the Globus Toolkit. Therefore we will present most of our information and concepts within the context of the Globus Toolkit.
Note that though most of our examples and testing were accomplished in a Linux ...
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