
122 Grid Computing in Research and Education
Introduction
This is an example of an institutional research organization that has several
Research and Development sites worldwide. Each site has its IT infrastructure in
place, which can vary in terms of network topology, server platform, operating
systems (such as Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, Windows, and OS/390®), directory
servers, etc. In the sites, there are a number of researches being developed that
pose varying degrees of computing demand, from fast processing through huge
storage capacity.
As the sites are based on diverse platforms, it is not an easy task to provide
comprehensive sharing of reso ...