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Preface
This IBM Redbook, Grid Computing in Research and Education, belongs to a
series of documents related to grid computing that IBM is presenting to the
community to enrich the IT industry and all its players: customers, industry
leaders, emerging enterprises, universities, and producers of technology. The
book is mainly oriented to IT architects or those who have the responsibility of
analyzing the capabilities to build in a grid solution.
The book is organized into the following parts.
Part 1, “Introduction” on page 1
In this part of the book we present the basics about what, why, and how the grid
concept can be applied to the research and education fields. When going
through this par