Study List

What are the basic concepts?

• What are GRID / Cell?
• Are there different approaches? / Definition? (Is a hardware/ software / concept)?
• What is Cell / GRID architecture / infrastructure? (hardware/ software)
  • Bandwidth
  • Chip
  • Computer
• What is the present development stage? How many times are needed/ used to develop this?
• Who use the GRID now/ in the future?
• Who develop/ research on GRID now?
• Who are the players in this field? Technology pioneers: country, company, university?
• Present motives for developing it / assumptions for its future use?
• Motives / De-motives for implementing GRID?
• Industrial/ Commercial implication / usage?
• What are the limitations of GRID?
• Difference between Clusters & GRID
• What other technologies are needed to help its development?
• Are their any substitutable technologies?

What are the Uncertainties?

• Political Issues that might rise?
• Resistant to new IT? Problem with legacy system? Too complicated for implementation?
• What technologies are needed for successful implementation? Parallel programming?
• Who will be possible winners/ losers? (Benefit / loss from it)
• Will consumer use it?
  • Will they be willing to share their computing capacity?
  • How much will they be willing to share?
  • “Psychological issue”: opportunity ride
  • Security Problem?
• Music/ Movie/ Digital game industry trend? (going online etc )
• Government Support?
• Economical Influence?

Key points to bear in mind during interview

• Ask them what they don’t know instead of what they know
• Ask them the uncertainties
• For each uncertainty, ask them what the situation will be like, what are the extremes?