Grid Computing Explained

An anonymous reader writes "What's different between Grid computing and P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE? This article provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between Grid computing and such distributed computing systems as P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE."

Plan9

[Anonymous Coward]

For a real nice grid system, take a look at Plan9 [bell-labs.com]. Very nice, well-designed system.

Re:OT: Is there a Java-based P2P system?

[pcraven]

Well, the article was about grids, not p2p systems.

Here's one toolkit [globus.org] for creating grid programs with java.

Personally, I just don't see grid computing work where you ship your stuff out to 3rd party computers. There is the network latency, and the security aspects. But it might work for a company to maintain their own grid. That I could see. Maybe.