Grid

Application of multiple computers to form large computer grids. A variation of parallelism, concurrency, transaction-processing, cluster technology, thread technology, and multiprocessor systems. Essentially, we model our problem as one requiring multiple non-dependent concurrent processes. Each thread manages a separate set of events. Multiprocessing leads to a higher communication burden, which is the cost of saving processing time.

This enable the computers to operate in competition and coopoeration with each other, as well as providing maximum use of resources.
Particularly used by CERN at the moment.

Parallel Systems Course (HT03) - Leif Enblom, The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Sweden



GRID Computing seems very topical. One of the problems with traditional mathematical modelling of computer systems is that they tend to focus in one single dimensional systems, while concurrent systems are ignored.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/6837976.htm



http://www.gridtoday.com/03/0922/101972.html