Computational grid or Grid computing can be explained as the use of several computers concurrently to solve a single problem, often it is applied in technical and scientific issues that need a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large volumes of data. Mostly this type of computing is heavily centered within the research and academic dimensions, but companies currently have started use it to help solve some of their work related problems.

Grid computing has emerged in companies as an alternate technology that they can be implement to gain more productivity and profits out of their IT resources. In addition it allows for coordinated, secure and flexible resource sharing among unique collection of institutions, individual and resources within the business. This system of networking is also affordable, and its user friendly. In addition, it allows for cheaper and faster connection to the internet within the business premise. It can incorporate other software’s that are not installed within the company computers therefore allowing for a wider use of packages and services within the company (Barril, Garrison, Haas, Richardson, 2014). Lastly, its implementation will give global access to storage capacity, a network of devices for output and input services, distributed resources CPU cycles, services, abstract elements like certificates and licenses and whole applications.

I concur with the observations made by Lauren England on the cons of its application in companies that include: hackers breaching the systems, expense of constant security firewall upgrades. Identification of actual authentication of users, power related issues and system overload all undermine the Grid computing advantages.

You would not be able to really tell the difference between using a home computer or work computer off the grid or on the grid. Many people are actually on grid computers and do not know about it I would imagine maybe if the internet connection was lagging then you might be able to tell but other than that for the everyday person I do not believe that they would know if they were on grid computing. “In the ideal grid computing system, every resource is shared, turning a computer network into a powerful supercomputer [and allows] access to enormous processing power and storage capacity” (Strickland, 2014).  With large scale grids the access to the greater amount of capabilities would be an easily recognizable perk, feats that none of our home computers are capable of

There are many public distributed computing research projects in existence and they each try to focus on different aspects that affect people’s lives. One effective example of such a project is the Asteroids@home project based in Charles University in Prague, Czec launched in 2012. Its overall aim is mainly to significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids. The public mainly contributes to such projects by installing their engine, changing a few settings on your computer, and allowing the use of your central processing unit at times you select. o many different projects of so many different importance’s are going on as well. Makes you realize just how much the internet and computer has affected our lives.