High energy & nuclear physics

Most Governments were convinced and invested billions of $/£/€

However, important differences were under-estimated

• P2P/partner vs Customer-provider relationship
• Large number vs Small number of actors/providers
• Large number vs Small number of applications
• Weak vs Strong supervision/control
• …

Consequence: this forecast failed… and governments were angry

• Consequence: this forecast failed… and governments were angry

• Not a complete failure: grids are definitely useful and actually used!

• But they did not re-shape the economy and the society

• However they did push extremely strong ideas

• Aggregation of distributed resources
• Heavy use of clusters
• Brokering of resources – Large scale monitoring of distributed resources
• World-Wide scale
• Access through the Internet
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