Enabling the Grid
n Internet is Infrastructure
q Increased network bandwidth and advanced services
n Advances in Storage Capacity
q Terabyte costs less than $5,000
n Internet-Aware Instruments
n Increased Availability of Compute Resources
q Clusters, supercomputers, storage, visualization devices
n Advances in Application Concepts
q Computational science: simulation and modeling
q Collaborative environments ® large and varied teams
n Grids Today
q Moving towards production; Focus on middleware