Larry Smarr and NCSA Collaboration have stressed analogy of deployment of computer/communication technology with impact that electrical and transportation grids had
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I.e. they enabled revolutions in society
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What is relative role of High-end and Commodity-end in Grid?
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The transportation system was built using lessons from and feed up/down from Sports cars, Cadillacs, Model T's, Ford Escorts etc.
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Computational Grid will be shaped by and shape all applications and technologies
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Proposed Education program Internetics expresses synergy between high-end and commodity approaches
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A computational grid is a metacomputer or a "high performance distributed computer system" which must be influenced by and influence the "Object Web" which is here defined as "mass-market"/business IntraNet (low to low) use of Internet/distributed Information Systems
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