Loosely Coupled glossaryDefinitions of terms and concepts in web services and process automationWSRF- August 30, 2004 (Web Services Resource Framework) Web services for grid computing. WSRF defines conventions for managing 'state' so that applications can reliably share changing information. In combination with WS-Notification and other WS- standards, the result is to make grid resources accessible within a web services architecture. Coupled with WS-Notification, the specification is a response to, and supersedes, the grid community's own first effort to converge grid and web services, the Open Grid Service...http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/WSRF grid computing- August 30, 2004 Pooled computer resources. Grid computing, or simply grid, is the generic term given to techniques and technologies designed to make pools of distributed computer resources available on-demand. Grid computing was originally conceived by research scientists as a way of combining computers across a network to form a distributed supercomputer to tackle complex computations. In the commercial world, grid aims to maximize the utilization of an organization's computing resources by making them...http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/grid%20computing |