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Monday, July 12, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Will the Grid survive? -- Comment()
Here is a well thought pessimistic analysis of Grid Supercomputing: "Therein lies the conundrum of the Grid-as-supercomputer: the oversupply of cycles the Grid relies on exists because of a lack of demand. PCs are used as many things -- file cabinets and communications terminals and typewriters and photo albums and jukeboxes -- before they are used as literal computers. If most users had batch applications they were willing to wait for even as long as overnight, the first place they would look for spare cycles would be on their own machines, not on some remote distributed supercomputer." I agree on this analysis. However, one should note that grid is not only about computing - it is also about collaboration, access to resources, and politics (USA vs. EU etc.). So, in the end it may turn out the grid model is a success after all.
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