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The Grid-Idea and Its Evolution (Die Grididee und ihre Evolution)

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In this paper we review the essence of the Grid-Idea. Specifically, we explore the changing definition of the Grid and follow its evolution over the past decade. This evolution is motivated by the gradual expansion of management issues that must be addressed to make production Grids a reality and to meet user requirements for increased functionality. Additionally, we focus on the evolutionary path of the Globus Toolkit taken to address the increasing needs of the community. We also discuss the evolutionary inclusion of commodity technologies as illustrated by the Java Commodity Grid Project. Grid computing has become a valuable asset in scientific and business communities for integrating distributed resources needed to match increased requirements in managing computations and data . We have seen the development of single computers, mainframes, vector computers, parallel computers, distributed computers, and metacomputers and, most recently, the emergence of the Grid infrastructure. With these developments several issues have arisen: (1) the ever increasing need of scientists to gain access to massive computing power; (2) the recognition that the most powerful computers, while useful for solving complex problems, may be too ex- * The submitted manuscript has been created by the University of Chicago as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory ("Argonne") under Contract No. W-31-109-ENG-38 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in said article to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the Government.

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