"grid" is a marketing term for "loosely coupled distributed clustering";
it was a trendy word 10 years ago, but has fallen into disuse because
it's so generic (and not all that widely applicable).
I always thought the idea was to charge for computing as a service (just
like the electrical utility). Actually, many firms are doing this now.
Amazon, for example.
the Cloud is the new Grid ;)
I don't think Grid did much to make money, though there was a lot of talk
about how Grid would bring utility computing - as easy as plugging into a
wall socket.
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