E-Grid - Toward the creation of a european Grid community

The popularity of the Internet and the availability of powerful computers and highspeed networks as low-cost commodity components are changing the way we use computers today. It is now possible to cluster or couple a wide variety of resources including supercomputers, storage systems, data sources, and special classes of devices distributed geographically, and use them as a single unified resource, thus forming what is popularly known as a computational grid. Two important international open forums, Grid and E-Grid, have been created in order to promote and develop Grid Computing technologies and applications.