The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
A machine learning approach to TCP throughput prediction
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Architectural Requirements for Cloud Computing Systems: An Enterprise Cloud Approach
Journal of Grid Computing
A Science Driven Production Cyberinfrastructure--the Open Science Grid
Journal of Grid Computing
Embedded systems for global e-Social Science: Moving computation rather than data
Future Generation Computer Systems
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This paper charts the evolution of an intercontinental Grid--INWA--from its first operation connecting Australia and Scotland; its subsequent extension to China; and its use to demonstrate the first large-scale research and education network for the Asia-Pacific region. The paper focuses on the gap between e-Science and e-Social Science arguing that the Grid topology is more compatible with the socio-legal demands of large-scale study of society than more dynamically distributed approaches, such as Cloud Computing. Foundational texts on Grid Computing and its appropriation by research programmes in the UK, USA and China have helped create a positive, symbolic value for Grid Computing. For INWA, this value helped when communicating the aims of the project to potential collaborators and so created the conditions for high-quality, socio-economic data to be placed in a collaborative, analytical environment. There is no equivalent symbolic value for Cloud Computing with potential consequences for its usefulness in establishing such collaborations in future.