The Current State of the Grid

Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, by Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox, and Anthony J. G. Hey, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 0470853190, US$105 The use of the term "Grid computing" covers a wide variety of efforts in distributed computing, high-performance computation, self-repairing networks, ubiquitous computing, or new techniques in high-availability computing. In recent years, the field has seen a burst of activity with many new projects and received increased attention in the technical and popular press.