Re:So what exactly is "grid computing"? (Score 1)

Ian Foster's definition is here http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/Articles/WhatIsT heGrid.pdf

A book he edited is often considered the an excellent starting point, The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. His website http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/

Only reason why I know anything is because I have a 10 page report due before the end of the week for my High Performance Computing module. Yippee.