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What a grid offers will vary depending upon the size of the implementation. However a common feature of all grids is the availability of massive parallel CPU capacity.

This has proved to be an attraction for fields such as bio-medical, financial modelling, oil exploration and movie special effects creation.

Although these examples come from different application domains the applications will all need algorithms that have been developed so that they can be partitioned into independently running components, a problem that has faced the developers of parallel computing applications for years.

Grid computing will provide a richer means for collaboration on a scale that surpasses those currently available with distributed computing.

With the grid these resources will be provided on a much larger scale and standard communication mechanisms will allow collaboration between heterogeneous environments.

With this mechanism for collaboration the user will have the ability to perceive the grid as a virtual super computer.

Virtual organisations will also play a key role in facilitating grid collaboration as they will allow groups of users to be assigned to a virtual organisation each of which can have various privileges applied to it.

Alongside under-utilised CPU cycles many system are also not making complete utilisation of storage. Therefore with the introduction of a grid the unused storage capacity of each node attached to the grid can be utilised in the same manner as idle CPU cycles.

This use of grid technology to share storage capacity has given rise to the term, 'data grid'. Data grids could be simply a matter of using available space on all the workstations attached to a cluster grid, or they could involve MSS attached to the grid.

One advantage of a data grid is the ability to replicate the data at various sites throughout the grid, therefore improving the reliability of it.

As all resources are connected via the grid the software can be developed in such a way that it will automatically route jobs to parts of the grid that are under less pressure than others.

Alongside the processing and storage resources that a grid can make available additional resources such as dedicated hardware or specialized services which were only available to large well-funded organizations can now be available to all.

Currently, many of the applications developed to take advantage of computational grids have been designed for large commercial or research organizations. However, there are now increasing applications being developed for the average consumer that take advantage of grid computing.

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One such example of a company utilizing the grid is a centuries-old financial publishing firm, Bowne & Co.

In 2004, Bowne launched a modest production grid and as a result, the company has cut in half processing time for a key application that helps mutual fund customers meet financial reporting regulations (Joch, 2004).

Now, with the help of DataSynapse's LiveCluster distributed-computing software, reports that used to take two hours to complete are done in an hour, which is a significant reduction for a company that has to churn out hundreds of thousands of reports within production windows that might last only a few days.

Using the power of their internal company grid IBM have created a Microprocessor design grid which enables 80 percent utilization of resources for chip simulation, resulting in lower errors in microprocessor design and reducing the development cycle for chips (IBM, 2003).

Boeing has used grid clustering technology to help in the aerodynamics analysis of their new set of rockets. After 16 months the system was found to perform better than expected and may become the standard for developing rockets (Linux, 2001).

Butterfly.net and IBM (Butterfly, 2003) hope to use the advantages of grid computing combined with BladeCentres to improve the way in which users play network-based computer games on Playstation 2 consoles.

This is being hailed by many as potentially the first commercial use of grid technologies. The potential for online gaming is seen as the application that will potentially drive the demand for broadband internet connections in homes beyond its current market share. As a result, Sony and Microsoft are set to battle for supremacy in the market.
 
Expert Answer

What a grid offers will vary depending upon the size of the implementation. However a common feature of all grids is the availability of massive parallel CPU capacity.

This has proved to be an attraction for fields such as bio-medical, financial modelling, oil exploration and movie special effects creation.

Although these examples come from different application domains the applications will all need algorithms that have been developed so that they can be partitioned into independently running components, a problem that has faced the developers of parallel computing applications for years.

Grid computing will provide a richer means for collaboration on a scale that surpasses those currently available with distributed computing.

With the grid these resources will be provided on a much larger scale and standard communication mechanisms will allow collaboration between heterogeneous environments.

With this mechanism for collaboration the user will have the ability to perceive the grid as a virtual super computer.

Virtual organisations will also play a key role in facilitating grid collaboration as they will allow groups of users to be assigned to a virtual organisation each of which can have various privileges applied to it.

Alongside under-utilised CPU cycles many system are also not making complete utilisation of storage. Therefore with the introduction of a grid the unused storage capacity of each node attached to the grid can be utilised in the same manner as idle CPU cycles.

This use of grid technology to share storage capacity has given rise to the term, 'data grid'. Data grids could be simply a matter of using available space on all the workstations attached to a cluster grid, or they could involve MSS attached to the grid.

One advantage of a data grid is the ability to replicate the data at various sites throughout the grid, therefore improving the reliability of it.

As all resources are connected via the grid the software can be developed in such a way that it will automatically route jobs to parts of the grid that are under less pressure than others.

Alongside the processing and storage resources that a grid can make available additional resources such as dedicated hardware or specialized services which were only available to large well-funded organizations can now be available to all.

Currently, many of the applications developed to take advantage of computational grids have been designed for large commercial or research organizations. However, there are now increasing applications being developed for the average consumer that take advantage of grid computing.

Project Info

One such example of a company utilizing the grid is a centuries-old financial publishing firm, Bowne & Co.

In 2004, Bowne launched a modest production grid and as a result, the company has cut in half processing time for a key application that helps mutual fund customers meet financial reporting regulations (Joch, 2004).

Now, with the help of DataSynapse's LiveCluster distributed-computing software, reports that used to take two hours to complete are done in an hour, which is a significant reduction for a company that has to churn out hundreds of thousands of reports within production windows that might last only a few days.

Using the power of their internal company grid IBM have created a Microprocessor design grid which enables 80 percent utilization of resources for chip simulation, resulting in lower errors in microprocessor design and reducing the development cycle for chips (IBM, 2003).

Boeing has used grid clustering technology to help in the aerodynamics analysis of their new set of rockets. After 16 months the system was found to perform better than expected and may become the standard for developing rockets (Linux, 2001).

Butterfly.net and IBM (Butterfly, 2003) hope to use the advantages of grid computing combined with BladeCentres to improve the way in which users play network-based computer games on Playstation 2 consoles.

This is being hailed by many as potentially the first commercial use of grid technologies. The potential for online gaming is seen as the application that will potentially drive the demand for broadband internet connections in homes beyond its current market share. As a result, Sony and Microsoft are set to battle for supremacy in the market.
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