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Originally Posted by JoC "Softgrid is the generic name for a bunch of servers that rather than just hold data like your servers over in the exciting and sexy department actually hold the applications as well. *snip*
The advantage is that PCs don't need to be upgraded and really old machines can be used to run modern software. It also makes administration a lot easier because there is only ever one copy of an application. |
They are just making that up. If someone said "grid computing" to me in a general computing context I'd take that to mean lots of machines distributing load over them (ie grid computing) which generally works under the concept of having lots of not overly powerful machines to do the work.
*sigh* maybe I just haven't kept with the times. I remember back in the old days where you had a big server and lots of dumb terminals being hosted off that... oh that's just like this is
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