Beyond the "device as portal": meeting the requirements of wireless and mobile devices in the legion grid computing system
B. Clarke, Marty Humphrey · 2002
Grid computing is an emerging paradigm in which resources in multiple organizations are combined into a single, seamless computing environment. As the storage, processing, and networking capabilities of wireless and mobile devices continue to expand, there will soon be the ability to use such devices as first-class compute- and data-servers (albeit for restricted problem sizes). However, without the proper software architecture for Grid computing, such devices will continue to be only usable as Web portals to high-power backend servers. This paper describes the unique capabilities of the Legion Grid computing infrastructure that will directly support these next-generation, powerful devices as first-class entities.