Following pointers from my last post, I have scoured the net for clear definitions of JavaSpaces, tuplespaces and Grid Computing (ie: I typed the phrases into Google).

I have a better understanding of the subject as a result.

I still haven’t found a clear definition of a grid. Damian has suggested that the things I wrote about good grids are needed for a grid to be called a grid at all. Ian, who led the talk yesterday, has said that there are many definitions of what constitutes a grid, and that even vendors of Grid Computing software have their own definitions of Grid Computing. Add “confusion” to the Google search and see what comes back.

The definitions of Grid Computing which I found were so wide, so varied and so unclear that I gave up and wrote my own.