Java grid computing - Java World

Java grid computing - Java World: "What is a grid? It's more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled afs grids but do not really fit the definition. To give some historical background, grid computing emerged from academia with a formal definition in the late 1990s. In 1998, Ian Foster and Carl Kessellman defined computation grids in The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure:"