Grid Is Good: Using the Globus Toolkit and Grid Computing
A grid is a type of distributed system where resources such as memory or processing power are shared among a large number of computers and appear to be a single system. Grids can combine the resources from thousands of machines into a single virtual supercomputer. The SETI@home project is one example of grid computing. This project was launched in 1999 to help researchers analyze radio signals from space, in search of evidence of extraterrestrial life. SETI@home takes advantage of underutilized processing power on many thousands of machines to process large amounts of data in a distributed manner. Many other grids are in operation around the world, with applications in physics, bioinformatics, ...
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