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Chapter 12

Server/Storage Virtualization

and Grid Computing for

Commercial Enterprise

Environments

12.1 Introduction

Grid computing* (or more precisely, a grid computing system) is a virtualized distributed comput-

ing environment. Such an environment aims at enabling the dynamic runtime selection, sharing,

and aggregation of geographically distributed autonomous resources on the basis of the availability,

capability, performance, and cost of these computing resources, and simultaneously, also on the basis

of an organization’s specific baseline or burst-processing requirements [MIN200701]. When people

think of a grid, the idea of an interconnected ...