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Cloud Computing vs. Grid Computing
Thorsten von Eicken talks about the distinction between grid computing (which is concerned with batch processing) and cloud computing (which is concerned with on-demand resource allocation). As he puts it in a later comment to his blog post:
“The most fundamental principle in cloud computing is being able to bring the next server from boot into full production on auto-pilot. This solves many problems, from repairing failures, to scaling up and down with load, to launching additional deployments for special purposes (staging, demo, test, etc). The notion that when you need additional resources you go and get them is different. It doesn’t exist in batch processing.”
