By Rich Wellner
Grid computing is celebrating 11 years next month, and is poised to
become increasingly mainstream in the coming years. There are a number
of reasons that this is true, and most of them are the time tested
ideas that have been proving themselves in your research institutions
and businesses for years. The grid is about allowing your organization
to run more efficiently and more effectively than can be done with more
conventional technology solutions. It's about bringing many machines
together in coordination around a task. It's about bringing data
storage and movement to bear in a coordinated fashion with your
application. It's about allowing people from different parts of your
organization to work together more easily.
