grid computing question.

[azizaasem]

Q1: Grid can be defined as " large-scale Pooling of resources"; specify what is meant by resources, in such definition for the following systems describe the meaning of the resources; for each specify the HW& SW Infrastruvture:
a) A company needing to reach a decision on the placement of a new factory invokes a sophisticated financial forcasting model from an ASP,providing it with access to appropriate proprietry historical data from a corporate databaseon storage systems operated by an SSP.

B) An industrial consortium formed to develope a feasibiliy study for a next-generation supersonic aircraft. This smulation integrates propriety software components developed by different participants, with each component operating on that participant's computer and having access to appropriate database and other data made available to the consortium by its members.

[GrimJack]

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