Classes of Grid Applications
"Big Queue in the Sky" -- seamless (one at a time) access to multiple heterogeneous supercomputers
Collaborative access to specialized scientific instruments and visualization (a few linked systems)
"Parameter Studies" (pleasingly parallel -- no communication)
Application Integration (coarse grain components -- not particularly high performance)
PC, Workstation, Origin 2000/SP2 clusters (parallel computing built from distributed computing technology -- general application but network specialized) -- Grid in a Box
Distributed Modeling and Simulation (using geographically distributed computers to simulate geographically distributed systems)
TeleMedicine and Distance Education (high “performance” as large number of users)