Abstract

Why do we need computational grids? Computational approaches to problem solving have proven their worth in almost every field of human endeavor. Computers are used for modeling and simulating complex scientific and engineering problems, diagnosing medical conditions, controlling industrial equipment, forecasting the weather, managing stock portfolios, and many other purposes. Yet, although there are certainly challenging problems that exceed our ability to solve them, computers are still used much less extensively than they could be. To pick just one example, university researchers make extensive use of computers when studying the impact of changes in land use on biodiversity, but city planners selecting routes for new roads or planning new zoning

Metadata

publication

The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, 1999

year

1999

publication date

1999

authors

Carl Kesselman, I Foster

link

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15208603740817524057&hl=en&oi=scholarr

journal

The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure