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Girding for GridsCRLF

Rob Fixmer, EWeek, Jan 11, 2002

This item introduces a new buzzword: grid computing. Grid computing is essentially what we called peer-to-peer computing last year: it is a network of computers assembled on the internet to perform a single task. Grid computing is now gaining attention in corporate environments as a way of making use of computer power that sits idle in offices more than half of each day. Major players are Compaq, IBM, Platform Computing, and Sun Microsystems. The open source version of grid computing is called the Globus Project.

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