GIRD COMPUTING- A TOOL FOR ENHANCING THE COMPUTING POWER

With the enormous increase in the demand for computing capacities, solutions with leastinvestment have to found out. In this direction Grid technology is finding its way out of the academicincubator and entering into commercial environments. Here geographically distributed resources, such asstorage devices, data sources, and supercomputers, are interconnected and exploited by users around thEworld as single, unified resource. This helps in use the idle time of these resources, which is otherwise lostThis article discusses briefly about grid computing and its benefits. Application of this technology isincreasing and this article also looks at some of these applications