Grid Computing

Research Paper # 91964

Computer and Technology > Hardware
Computer and Technology > Internet
Computer and Technology > Networks
Computer and Technology > Software

Grid Computing

An overview of the uses and benefits of grid computing.

1,126 words () | 1 source | MLA | 2006 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how grid computing is a type of networking that focuses on tapping unused processor cycles, storage and other resources between many computers to solve complex problems, that can't be solved by single computers.It also discusses how grid networks usually require special software to connect the many computers in the network and how they are used for projects that involve huge amounts of data and processor cycles.

Outline
Introduction
Uses, Descriptions and Benefits
Advantages for Your Organization

From the Paper:

"Advances in communications technologies and mainly the internet provide one of the main backbones of grid computing. Internet computing makes it possible to for grid networks to handle many teraflops (floating-point operations) that can be used to analyze petabytes of data. For instance, enormous calculations can produce many petabytes of information and would need as much as 20 or more teraflops for basic analysis. A typical supercomputer can handle about 3 teraflops and would be wholly inadequate to complete the task hence the need for more powerful computing solutions like grid networks.".