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Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5

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Overview Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation. In a sense, Grids are enabled by virtualization, automation and service-orientation technologies and also integrate these technologies into a unifying solution - particularly across functional and organizational boundaries. Grid integrates the concepts of application, data and system virtualization into a unifying platform that frees applications and data from being statically bound to dedicated infrastructure silos and provides a more flexible, shared environment to support IT services. Virtualization is the logical representation of a resource that is separated - abstracted - from its physical implementation.

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Publisher	Open Grid Forum	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, High Performance Computing, Virtualization

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