Unlocking The Grid
Grid
computing has successfully crossed from research to business. Yet for
most companies, the grid remains a remote vision hampered by
exaggerated expectation.
For most of the day, a typical
computer processor ticks along at a fraction of its potential. Software
is run sporadically, with the processor only troubled during rare,
intensive tasks. Multiply this by the multitude of computers sitting
under office desks, in server farms and across the world’s millions of
businesses, and the picture of wasted resource is scandalous.
Sending an email asking for somebody’s back account logon details is such a simple idea – no wonder more than 13,000 such message were created in March 2005 alone, with each one sent to thousands if not millions of people. The emails directed the receiver to one of 2870 brand-new websites where bank account and other financial details were collected.