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)

ü Bandwidth

ü Chip

ü 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?

ü Will they be willing to share their computing capacity?

ü How much will they be willing to share?

ü “Psychological issue”: opportunity ride

ü Security Problem?

§ Music/ Movie/ Digital game industry trend? (going online etc )

§ Government Support?

§ Economical Influence?

Key points to bear in mind during interview:

ü Ask them what they don’t know instead of what they know

ü Ask them the uncertainties

ü For each uncertainty, ask them what the situation will be like, what are the extremes?