Journal of Grid Computing

期刊简介：Grid computing is an emerging technology that enables large-scale resource sharing and coordinated problem solving within distributed, often loosely coordinated groups-what are sometimes termed "virtual organizations. By providing scalable, secure, high-performance mechanisms for discovering and negotiating access to remote resources, Grid technologies promise to make it possible for scientific collaborations to share resources on an unprecedented scale, and for geographically distributed groups to work together in ways that were previously impossible. Similar technologies are being adopted within industry, where they serve as important building blocks for emerging service provider infrastructures.Even though the advantages of this technology for classes of applications have been acknowledged, research in a variety of disciplines, including not only multiple domains of computer science (networking, middleware, programming, algorithms) but also application disciplines themselves, as well as such areas as sociology and economics, is needed to broaden the applicability and scope of the current body of knowledge.

【译文】网格计算是一种新兴技术，它使得在分布式、通常松散协调的群体中实现大规模资源共享和协同问题解决成为可能——有时被称为“虚拟组织”。通过提供可扩展、安全、高性能的机制来发现和协商访问远程资源，网格技术有望使科学合作能够在前所未有的规模上共享资源，并使地理上分散的群体以前不可能的方式协同工作。类似的技术正在工业界得到采用，它们作为新兴服务提供商基础设施的重要构建块。尽管这种技术在某些应用类别中的优势已被认可，但需要对包括计算机科学（网络、中间件、编程、算法）的多个领域以及应用学科本身，以及社会学和经济学等领域进行各种学科的研究，以扩大现有知识体系的适用性和范围。