Vladimir Silva writes, "Computer Grids will create a powerful pool of computing resources capable of running the most demanding scientific and engineering applications required by researchers and businesses today."
Here's the full abstract of this IBM DeveloperWorks article:
Grids are environments that enable software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations. Grid computing is all about sharing resources that are located in different places based on different architectures and belonging to different management domains. Computer Grids will create a powerful pool of computing resources capable of running the most demanding scientific and engineering applications required by researchers and businesses today. The objective of this article is to describe the basics of job submission against computer Grids using the Java CoG Kit.