| Title: |
Grid and SOA |
| Author: |
Lawrence Wilkes |
| Publication Date: |
16 February 2005 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
The notion of grid computing has been around for sometime now, but has yet to fully cross the chasm. As with proponents of Web Services, a highly relevant technology, the grid community increasingly refers to Service Oriented Architecture. In this report we examine the relationship between grid and SOA and the status of activity in the grid community. |
| Backgrounder: |
“Grid computing offers the power to address some of the world's most challenging problems; for example, struggles to prevent cancer and cure smallpox, to reliably predict earthquakes and global warming, and many others.”1
Noble sentiments indeed. But what about more day to day business problems? Can a grid approach improve the efficiency of business processes, or improve the visibility of information to participants across a supply chain or an ecosystem?
Many grid discussions centre around harnessing the use of potentially massive computing power available on a wide network, linking it together to solve what are primarily computational horsepower problems that are common in the scientific and research domains as mentioned in the opening quotation.
But what about scenarios that are more information intensive? Is grid appropriate for harnessing distributed data that could be retrieved “on demand”, where resources on the grid are not all crunching the same algorithm, but are fragmented sources of information that need to be pulled together and analyzed to satisfy a particular request, like a giant service-based data warehouse.
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| Report Size: |
10 Pages |
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