A Short History of the Grid
n Grand Challenge Problems (1980s)
q NSF and DOE initiatives
q “Science is a team sport”
q Initiate multi-resource projects involving computation,
instruments, visualization, data
n Evolution of Related Communities
q Parallel computation
m Address resource limitations
q Networking
m Gigabit testbed program
˘  Investigate potential testbed network architectures
˘ Explore usefulness for end-users