Patent ID: 8499023

Claim:
A computer-based method for operating a grid computing environment, comprising: providing a web server running on a computer device on a digital communications network; providing a plurality of grid switches for interswitch communication and receiving grid compute requests from a user program and routing the grid compute requests to a grid engine on the web server; processing the grid compute request with the grid engine to identify a client program and a path to the client program; loading and running the client program on the computer device to generate a client program output; and transmitting the client program output to the user program, wherein the grid compute request comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) request string including a name of the client program and the path of the client program on a client system accessible by the web server via the communications network and wherein the transmitting of the client program output comprises providing a data stream to a grid end point accessible by the user program based on a URL opened by the grid engine based on the grid compute request.