While grids provide the ‘plumbing’ to enable access to distributed resources, clouds denote service on a pay-per-use basis. Grids stand out because of their flexible, dynamic, feature-rich resources; they are thus innately complex. This complexity, however, must be hidden from the end-user (e.g. in the form of a cloud) if we want acceptance of this infrastructure.
What Clouds and Grids Can Learn from Each Other
August 6, 2008