Grid Computing Offers More Power
But other problems need to be solved before grid computing becomes truly widespread?particularly in the context of inter-enterprise grids, utility models and ultimately a global grid. The biggest issue is security. If you’re sharing the grid with other companies?as you share the power lines now?you need assurances that nobody else can get to the confidential information you’re throwing into the system. Standardization also remains a challenge. A grid involves sharing distributed heterogeneous resources and bringing together a number of operating systems, vendor platforms and applications. Getting them all to talk will require new protocols. A number of nonprofit groups such as the Global Grid Forum, the Globus Project and the New Productivity Initiative are working on security and standardization issues. But until these issues are worked out, grid computing will likely remain an internal corporate effort.
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