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[lecture]The Next Era of Computing"Grid computing has the potential to be a disruptive technology."
[Datamation::02 May 2002; GridPartners.com]Definitions [Obtained from Wikipedia.org]
Distributed computing is the "process of running a single computational task on more than one distinct computer."
Parallel computing is the "simultaneous execution of the same task on multiple processors."
Cluster computing is a "group of connected computers that work together as a parallel computer."
Grid computing is a "model for solving massive computational problems using large number of computers arranged as clusters embedded in a distributed telecommunications infrastructure."
Supercomputer is a "computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity."
Beowulf is a "design for high-performance parallel computing clusters on inexpensive personal computing (PC) hardware. A Beowulf cluster is a group of usually identical PCs running Linux or another open source Unix operating system such as FreeBSD. They are networked together into a small TCP/IP LAN."
openMosix is a Multi-computer Operating System that supports distributed processing.
Author: Gerald D. Thurman
[gdt@deru.com]
Created: 08 May 2003