Athey: Distributed Accounting on the Grid (original) (raw)

The Internet has been engineered over the last thirty years to interconnect devices across the globe in an adaptable and fault-tolerant manner. Along with the development of the Internet, a suite of distributed applications ranging from electronic mail to the World Wide Web that rely upon the global Internet have grown in use and scope in parallel with the universal deployment and use of the Internet. By the late 1990’s, the Internet was adequately equipped to move vast amounts of data between HPC systems, and efforts were initiated to link together the national infrastructure of high performance computational and data storage resources together into a general computational utility “grid”, analogous to the national electrical power grid infrastructure.