High energy & nuclear physics

“A large-scale distributed computing paradigm that is driven by economies of scale, in which a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically-scalable, managed computing power, storage, platforms, and services are delivered on demand to external customers over the Internet” (Foster et al.)

Excerpts from the definitions

• Excerpts from the definitions

• large-scale distributed computing paradigm
• driven by economies of scale
• collection of interconnected and virtualized computers
• dynamically provisioned - delivered on demand
• presented as one or more unified computing resources
• service
• provider and consumers - service-level agreements
• over the Internet
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