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Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5

Category: Data Management, Servers and Server OS, IT Management

Tags: computing, infrastructure, applications, data

Overview Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation. In a sense, Grids are enabled by virtualization, automation and service-orientation technologies and also integrate these technologies into a unifying solution - particularly across functional and organizational boundaries. Grid integrates the concepts of application, data and system virtualization into a unifying platform that frees applications and data from being statically bound to dedicated infrastructure silos and provides a more flexible, shared environment to support IT services. Virtualization is the logical representation of a resource that is separated - abstracted - from its physical implementation.

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Publisher: Open Grid Forum
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Mar 1, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Virtualization, High Performance Computing, Infrastructure Management

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