Metacomputing

Two Level Job-Scheduling Strategies for a Computational Grid

“…Recently, parallel computers and clusters have been deployed to support computation-intensive applications and become part of so called computational grids (C-GRIDs) or metacomputers [10,8]. Such C-GRIDs are emerging as a new paradigm for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce [15].…”

Exploring decentralized dynamic scheduling for grids and clouds using the community-aware scheduling algorithm

“…Metacomputing, the term firstly introduced by Smarr and Catlett [17], is widely accepted in the field of grid computing [2] to describe the computational pool formed from resources of different participating nodes. In general, metascheduling solutions are classified into three categories, namely the centralized, hierarchy, and decentralized schemes [18,10,15].…”

Grid Characteristics and Uses: A Grid Definition

“…Features marked with * are implicit rather than explicit. The definition that coined the term grid is highlighted in bold letters Definition Features "The computing resources transparently available to the user via this networked environment have been called a metacomputer" [21] 7…”

“…However, the term grid still did not exist a that time, and the terms metasystem and metacomputer where used instead referring to "the computing resources transparently available to the user via a networked environment" [21].…”