distributed system enables sharing selection aggregation geographically distributed autonomous resources dynamically runtime depending availability capability performance cost users' quality service requirements cern one largest users grid technology talk '''the grid''' service sharing computer power data storage capacity internet see also related concepts cloud computing code mobility jungle computing sensor grid utility computing alliances organizations open grid forum formerly global grid forum object management group production grids european grid infrastructure enabling grids e science infn production grid nordugrid ourgrid sun grid techila xgrid univa
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