Abstract

“Grid” is the term used to refer to an emerging computational and networking infrastructure that provides pervasive, uniform, and reliable access to remote data, computational, sensor, and human resources (Foster and Kesselman, 1999). The Grid enhances today’s Internet with new services in such areas as interdomain security, resource discovery, and resource allocation. By thus eliminating barriers to the use of (in particular, high-end) computational capabilities for problem solving, this infrastructure is enabling new applications in such areas as collaborative work, distributed data mining, computer-enhanced instrumentation, and distributed super-computing.

Date

November 30, 2000

Authors

Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman

Book

Computational Aerosciences in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the ICASE/LaRC/NSF/ARO Workshop, conducted by the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center, The National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office, April 22–24, 1998

Pages

29-46

Publisher

Springer Netherlands