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?