Enabling Applications for Grid Computing with Globus

Chapter 3. Application architecture considerations

In the previous chapters we have introduced grid computing, the Globus Toolkit and its components, and some of the considerations that the infrastructure can impose on a grid-enabled application.

In this chapter, we look at the characteristics of applications themselves. We provide guidance for deciding whether a particular application is well suited to run on a grid.

Often we find people assuming that for an application to gain advantage from a grid environment, it must be highly parallel or otherwise able to take advantage of parallel processing. In fact, some like to think of a grid as a distributed cluster. Although such parallel applications certainly can take advantage of a grid, you should ...