
6 Big Data: Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics
in grid computing is highly protected giving the providers and consumers a clear
notion of what can be shared, who is allowed to share, and the sharing conditions.
Applications (jobs) can run in parallel (by distribution of tasks on grid nodes) where
the results are integrated and sent back to the calling node. In most grid computing
platforms, it is possible to allocate all the available nodes to one application for fast
processing.
1.2.2.1 Architecture
In a grid computing platform, a user submits job typically from a workstation or a
PC to a node known as master. The master node monitors ...