Why Grids? Some Use Cases (Foster et al)
“eScience
- A biochemist exploits 10,000 computers to screen 100,000 compounds in an hour
- 1,000 physicists worldwide pool resources for peta-op analyses of petabytes of data
- Civil engineers collaborate to design, execute, & analyze shake table experiments
- Climate scientists visualize, annotate, & analyze terabyte simulation datasets
- An emergency response team couples real time data, weather model, population data”
“eBusiness
- Engineers at a multinational company collaborate on the design of a new product
- A multidisciplinary analysis in aerospace couples code and data in four companies
- An insurance company mines data from partner hospitals for fraud detection
- An application service provider offloads excess load to a compute cycle provider
- An enterprise configures internal & external resources to support eBusiness workload”