Chapter 1 ‘Introduction’ answers the following questions:

Why do people talk about Grid computing? Why would a designer like to rent computers by the hour? Why would an engineering company send away its confidential data for remote processing? How could an investor trust information from someone he has never heard of ? What is common between a Web search engine and an airline ticket reservation? In this chapter we learn by example.

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