hello priya,
Well Distributed and Grid computing are more or less the same.
Well in Distributed systems you have a cluster of autonomous computers
linked together by one or more networking technologies like
Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, etc and also the distributed systems will have
distributed software which will help to manage resources like h/w, s/w and
data.
Grid is like Big brother, its a super set, You can have one or more
or a cluster of distributed systems in a Grid. Grid is a type of parallel
computing environment which enables to share,select and use geographically
distributes autonomous resources dynamically at runtime depending on
various factors like availability, performance, QOS etc.

For more information www.gridcomputing.com

cheers,
prahalad

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] priya shanmuga wrote:

> Sir ,
>
> I am a Final Year B.Tech (Computer Science ang Engineering) student of
Pondicherry Engineering College ,India.I have planned to make a project on Grid
Computing or to simulate a Grid model using jdk1.4 ..
> Sir, when we had our Zeroeth review on the project , I was questioned on the
difference between distributed computing and Grid computing which I was unable
to answer.They said that Grid has the same features as Distributed Computing
,then why do you use a new term as GRID COMPUTING. Sir,please help me answer
this question and encourage me to research further on GRID COMPUTING.
>
> Thank You
>
>
> Yours Sincerely,
> K.ShanmugaPriya
>
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