WORKSHOP: Workshop on Building a Computational Grid, September 8-10, 1997, Chicago, Illinois

网络和软件技术的发展使得能够将地理上分布式的计算、存储、网络和其他资源集成到高性能分布式计算系统或计算网格中。 这些计算网格有望通过构建提供全新功能的工具以及更广泛地访问超级计算机、科学数据库和仪器等独特资源来彻底改变高性能计算。 然而，如果要广泛部署和使用这些系统，仍然需要取得重大的技术进步。 本次研讨会将汇集领先的研究人员和从业人员，调查在元计算的艺术状态，讨论突出的问题，并确定未来的研究和发展方向。 研讨会的最终产品将是一本讨论构建计算网格的最新技术和研究挑战的编辑书籍。

Developments in networking and software technologies are enabling the integration of geographically distributed compute, storage, network, and other resources into high-performance distributed computing systems or computational grids. These computational grids promise to revolutionize high-performance computing by enabling both the construction of tools providing qualitatively new capabilities, and wider access to unique resources such as supercomputers, scientific databases, and instruments. However, major technical advances are still required if they are to be broadly deployed and used. This workshop will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to survey the state of the art in metacomputing, discuss outstanding problems, and identify future directions for research and development. The final product of the workshop will be an edited book discussing the state of the art and research challenges in building a computational grid.