The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science

\”Built on the Internet and the World Wide Web, the Grid is a new class of infrastructure. By providing scalable, secure, high-performance mechanisms for discovering and negotiating access to remote resources, the Grid promises to make it possible for scientific collaborations to share resources on an unprecedented scale, and for geographically distributed groups to work together in ways that were previously impossible.\”


I\’m sure there is an application for libraries somewhere in there. Full story.


Spotted at Metafilter.com.