Grid Computing Grid computing has proven to be an important new field focusing on the sharing of resources. Spearheaded by huge corporations like Oracle, Sun Micro-systems and IBM; it has also become one of the greatest things in information systems architecture. Grid computing has been hailed as the solution to performance and capacity problems for several applications. If you require a bigger and faster system, grid computing should definitely be a consideration. What is grid computing? The general idea behind grid computing is not new; the advantages of computing clusters and parallel processing in scientific research are well documented. The main concept behind grid computing is to make numerous autonomous machines that may be in different physical locations, act like they are a single virtual machine. An electrical grid analogy is often used to describe grid computing. In the electrical power grid, wall sockets link end users to a large infrastructure of resources tha...