A theoretical and detail approach on grid computing a review on grid computing applications

Abstract

The drastic increase in the commodity computer and network performance for the last generation has a resultant of faster hardware and more sophisticated software. But, the supercomputers of the current generation are still incapable of solving the current problems in the field of science, engineering, and business. This problems arises as a single machine cannot facilitate the availability of various heterogeneous resources required to resolve the crisis. Numerous experimental studies were conducted by different organizations, such that the topologically distributed resources were connected by the means of internet to act as a single machine. This new approach is coined by different naming as, meta-computing, scalable computing, global computing, Internet computing and recently “Grid Computing”. In this research paper, we have discussed about the origin of Grid Computing, need of Grid Computing, followed by the reason of choosing it and several FAQs. The software development kits and application programming interfaces are categorized upon the study of extensible and open Grid architecture. A comparative study between “cloud computing” and “grid computing”, as well a brief study of grid and web services have taken into account. Finally we conclude with the benefits and the applications of Grid computing in the current scenario and the upcoming generations.