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Commercial uses for grid computing?

I keep hearing from associates about grid computing which, from what I can gather, is highly distributed stuff along the lines of SETI@Home.

Is anyone working on these sort of systems for business use? My interest is in figuring out if there's a commercial reason for starting software development in this field.

Solution

  • Grid computing is really only needed if you have a lot of WORK that needs to be done, like folding proteins, otherwise a simple server farm will likely be plenty.