What is Grid Computing

[Nile Hadwards]

Grids are a form of distributed computing whereby a “super virtual computer” is composed of many networked loosely coupled computers acting in concert to perform very large tasks. This technology has been applied to computationally intensive scientific, mathematical, and academic problems through volunteer computing, and it is used in commercial enterprises for such diverse applications as drug discovery, economic forecasting, seismic analysis, and back-office data processing in support of e-commerce and Web services.

[John23]

As of me grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The Grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files.

[dvdreplication]

Really nice and interesting info but can you please explain it more in detail.