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9.5 Conclusion
Nowadays, performing research on cutting-edge technologies quite often implies
making use of heterogeneous tools and computing resources. Such diversity of
“building blocks” has always imposed major difficulties to researchers and
technical staffs that needed to accomplish time-critical and/or time-consuming
tasks on a daily basis.
In this chapter, we presented a grid-based implementation for integrating
computing resources so that the everyday tasks performed in research
institutions could be carried out more easily and efficiently. In particular, we
analyzed the impact of such implementation over scientific visualization tasks,
which traditionally are performed on heterogeneous software ...