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OCR: 244 SECTION D CHAPTER 6 GRID COMPUTING FIGURE 6-39 What is grid computing system? In the days when the Internet A distributed grid uses was really taking off, computer scientists noticed that thousands of comput- diverse variety of computers ers connected to the Internet Si idle for hours while the people who own generic and equal resources them are in meetings talking on the telephone sleeping, otherwise occu- A server running pied If these idle processing cycles could be harnessed they could supply grid management tremendous amount Q computing power software arms out pieces of computing system network computers harnessed together problem perform processing tasks. Grid computing systems can be public or pri- computers vate Some grid systems use computers connected to the Internet as the g ...