Scope of the Special Section: Grid computing is a well established domain in computer science. It has its origins in the domain of parallel and distributed computing, and increasingly owes more and more to Internet computing and Web services. The standardization of an overall architecture, protocols and in part interfaces, is currently among the most important activities in the domain. A curren...

In this paper we discuss the utilization of grid computing platforms as an enabling infrastructure for e-commerce, e-government and e-business applications. First fundamental concepts related with grid computing are presented, as well as a description of the evolution of grid computing platforms from pioneer projects to third generation systems. Then we identify a set of services that can be pr...

“Grid Computing” means many different things to many different people/companies: Distributed Computing Client/Server Computing Peer-to-peer Computing Blade Computing Clusters Web Farms Compute Farms Thin-client Computing Server-centric Computing Web Services Architecture Services Oriented Architecture Utility Computing On-demand Computing Grid Computing Each time a evolutionary step is taken, t...

Title of Document: THE LATTICE PROJECT: A MULTI-MODEL GRID COMPUTING SYSTEM Adam Bazinet, Master of Science, 2009 Directed By: Professor Michael Cummings Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Affiliate Professor, Department of Computer Science This thesis presents The Lattice Project, a system that combines multiple models of Grid computing. Grid computing is a paradigm for levera...

Cloud Computing represents a novel and promising approach for implementing scalable ICT systems for individual-, communities-, and business-use relying on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service oriented computing, business processes, and virtualization. From the technological point of view Grid computing is considered as the most related predecessor t...

Through the 1990s to 2012 the internet changed the world of computing drastically. It started its journey with parallel computing after it advanced to distributed computing and further to grid computing. And in present scenario it creates a new world which is pronounced as a Cloud Computing [1]. These all three terms have different meanings. Cloud computing is based on backward computing scheme...

Grid computing has recently migrated from traditional high performance and distributed computing to pervasive and utility computing based on the advanced capabilities of the wireless networks and the lightweight, thin devices. This has as result the emergence of a new computing paradigm which is the Mobile Grid. This paper provides a discussion on Mobile Grid definition, the basic motivation an...

Grid computing enables access to unprecedented resources and data, irrespective of the geographical locations and service rendered, with a better Quality of Service (QoS). Grid computing is similar to distributed computing except for its large scale computing power and large sharing capacity in a heterogeneous environment. The reasons for its popularity include global collaborations, improved i...

Grid computing is a promising technology for future computing platforms and is expected to provide easier access to remote computational resources that are usually locally limited. Scheduling is one of the core steps to efficiently exploit the capabilities of grid computing (GC) systems. The problem of optimally mapping (defined as matching and scheduling) tasks onto the machines of a grid comp...

The Grid Computing (grid) refers to technologies that allow consumers to obtain computing on demand, analogous in form and utility to electrical grid [1]. Grids and related application technologies are enabling scientists and engineers to build more and more complex applications for managing and processing large data sets, and for executing scientific experiments on distributed heterogeneous re...