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If publishing the data itself is easy, getting it to process may not be; the grid
application programmer will have to deal with network programming to build its
application, which is not desired; additionally, depending on how the application
is designed, it can suffers from scalability, as every node may try to access the
data at once. This happens because the responsibility for distributing the data
across the grid relies on the application designer, and not on the grid platform.
To sum up, this might be a good option when fast and short-term applications are
to be developed, but one should not rely on this type of publishing for long-term
and complex applications.
Data-base server oriented
This is the ...