
18 Grid Computing in Research and Education
The combination of these two ideas can be represented by the diagram in
Figure 2-1.
Figure 2-1 How a grid should expand
In this figure, each tank represents a group of grid nodes, and the level of water
inside a tank represents the level of abstraction in which we are working to set
these nodes up for the grid. This figure suggests that:
The group of nodes should be integrated into the grid only after
fully-integrating “previous” nodes.
The order in which nodes are integrated into the grid depends on the
underlying physical and logical structures that connect them.
In terms of this figure, implementin ...