I'm not sure it's interesting to talk about the first "grid" project as distinct from "distributed computing".
What are you really looking for, Muhammad? Are you looking for the origin of the term "grid computing", or are you trying to understand the roots of the field? -alain On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Ioan Raicu wrote: > Hi, > There are 2 papers that I would look at. The first is on Nexus, published in > 1994, while the second is on Globus published in 1996. As far as I know, > Nexus was the initial attempt at the Globus Toolkit. > > year = 1994 > author = "I. Foster and C. Kesselman and R. Olson and S. Tuecke", > title = "Nexus: An Interoperability Layer for Parallel and > Distributed Computer Systems", > url = ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/tech_reports/reports/TM189.ps.Z > > > year = 1996 > author = "I. Foster and C. Kesselman", > title = "Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit", > url = http://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/43092/1/43092.pdf > > Cheers, > Ioan > > muhammad nazifi wrote: >> Hi, >> I know this question is not much related to globus user list but believe me, >> I have no other choice. >> what was the first grid project? I mean the first project that grid >> computing was used in.. >> >> Thankyou > > -- > ================================================================= > Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. > NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow > ================================================================= > Center for Ultra-scale Computing and Information Security (CUCIS) > Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science > Northwestern University > 2145 Sheridan Rd, Tech M384 Evanston, IL 60208-3118 > ================================================================= > Cel: 1-847-722-0876 > Tel: 1-847-491-8163 > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~iraicu/ > https://wiki.cucis.eecs.northwestern.edu/ > ================================================================= > ================================================================= > >
