Driving Forces for GRID development
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Here is a list of all the direct/indirect driving forces for past and future development of Grid.
- Direct Driving Forces
- Global scientific/commercial cooporation
- Peer-to-Peer Technology
- Parallel Computing
- Emergence of e-Science
- Need for common programming platform
- Programming standards
- Open Source
- Data-intensive Computing
- Very large-scale simulation
- Computation-intensive Computing
- Indirect Driving Forces
- Virtual Integration
- Cost of Computer Resources
- Reduce IT-infrastructure cost
- Dutch government stimulates Open Source software
- World Unification
- (Idle) Computer Processing Power
- Network Bandwidth
- Network Latencies
- The Increasing Use of Internet
- Increasing Use of e-Commerce
- Low cost of Internet Connections
- The rise of home entertainment systems
- Economics of scale
- Control of Technology