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This paper discusses the concept of grid towards achieving a complete definition using main grid characteristics and uses found in literature. Ten definitions extracted from main literature sources have been studied allowing the extraction of grid characteristics while grid uses are defined in terms of the different types of application support provided by grids. A grid definition is proposed using these characteristics and uses. This definition may be very useful to determine the limits of the grid concept as well as to explore new application fields in grid computing. In this sense, the extracted characteristics are employed to determine the potential benefits a grid infrastructure may provide to Computer Supported Collaborative Learning applications.
This work has been partially funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology projects TIC2002-04258-C03-02, TIC2000-1054 and Castilla y León Regional Government project VA 117/01.
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Bote-Lorenzo, M.L., Dimitriadis, Y.A., Gómez-Sánchez, E. (2004). Grid Characteristics and Uses: A Grid Definition. In: Fernández Rivera, F., Bubak, M., Gómez Tato, A., Doallo, R. (eds) Grid Computing. AxGrids 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24689-3_36
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