Grid and Cloud
Bob Jones · 2014
Today, the research community is facing a deluge of data produced by the latest generation of scientific instruments. This increased scale of scientific data is putting pressure on existing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services which are struggling to store, distribute, process, analyse and preserve this precious commodity. Distributed Computing Infrastructures such as Grids and Clouds are critical because science is fundamental to addressing the problems confronting our planet and our lives. Data is fundamental to science, and the scientific investigations that we now carry out require ever-increasing data sets. Grid computing has acted as a good showcase of what is possible with distributed computing infrastructures, and laid an important foundation for future forms of utility computing, including Clouds, which are currently having an immense impact on many business sectors and the IT industry in particular.