Comparable Study of Grid Computing and Cloud Computing

Author : Deepak Dudeja , Sunita Allen

Abstract

This paper aims to compare Grids and Clouds across a wide variety of perspectives, from architecture, security model, business model, programming model, virtualization, data model, compute model, to provenance and applications. [FZRL] outline a number of challenges and opportunities that Grid Computing and Cloud Computing bring to researchers and the IT industry, most common to both, but some are specific to one or the other.

Keywords: Grid computing, Cloud computing