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ITNOW 2006 48(4):32-33; doi:10.1093/itnow/bwl042
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© 2006 The British Computer Society

Future of computing

Grid computing now

Ian Osborne

Project manager for Intellect working on Grid Computing Now!

In the past few years we have seen the emergence of a new form of distributed computing called grid computing. This uses the internet as a communications backbone to enable the use of large numbers of internet-connected computers for collaboration in executing computing tasks to solve very large problems.


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