Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Two supposedly new approaches to distributed
computing have emerged in the past few years, both
claiming to address the problem of organizing largescale
computational societies: peer-to-peer (P2P) [15,
36, 49] and Grid computing [21]. Both approaches
have seen rapid evolution, widespread deployment,
successful application, considerable hype, and a
certain amount of (sometimes warranted) criticism.
The two technologies appear to have the same final
objective—the pooling and coordinated use of large
sets of distributed resources—but are based in
different communities and, at least in their current
designs, focus on different requirements.