Perspectives on grid computing

• Main Authors: Hluchy, Ladislav, Schwiegelshohn, Uwe, Badia, Rosa M., Bubak, Marian, Danelutto, Marco, Dustdar, Schahram, Gagliardi, Fabrizio, Geiger, Alfred, Kranzlmüller, Dieter, Laure, Erwin, Priol, Thierry, Reinefeld, Alexander, Resch, Michael, Reuter, Andreas, Rienhoff, Otto, Rüter, Thomas, Sloot, Peter M. A., Talia, Domenico, Ullmann, Klaus, Yahyapour, Ramin, Von Voigt, Gabriele
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96060; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10180
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Grid computing has been the subject of many large national and international IT projects. However, not all goals of these projects have been achieved. In particular, the number of users lags behind the initial forecasts laid out by proponents of grid technologies. This underachievement may have led...