Abstract

“Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications, and, in some cases, high performance orientation. In this article, the authors define this new field. First, they review the “Grid problem,” which is defined as flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources—what is referred to as virtual organizations. In such settings, unique authentication, authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and other challenges are encountered. It is this class of problem that is addressed by Grid technologies. Next, the authors present an extensible and open Grid architecture, in which protocols, services, application programming interfaces, and …

Metadata

publication

The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 15 (3 …, 2001

year

2001

publication date

2001/8

authors

Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke

link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/109434200101500302

resource_link

https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0103025

journal

The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

volume

15

issue

3

pages

200-222

publisher

Sage Publications