Grid Computing - GRID 2000
Subtitle: First IEEE/ACM International Workshop Bangalore, India, December 17, 2000 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Rajkumar Buyya (Editor); Mark Baker (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9783540414032
Subjects: General Theory of Computing; Data Processing - General; Computer Bks - General Information; Management Information Systems; Computer Architecture; Computer Systems; Computers; Computers - General Information; Congresses; Computer Architecture - General; Client-Server Computing - General; General; Networking - General; Computers / Networking / General; Grid computing; cluster computing; computer networks; distributed resources; distributedd systems; high-performance computing; Computational grids (Computer; Computational grids (Computer systems)
First sentence: In the early Nineties, research groups all over the world started exploiting distributed computing resources over the Internet: scientists collected and utilized hundreds of workstations for highly parallel applications like molecular design and computer graphics rendering.