Isn this just another Grid Tool like Globus?
In simple terms, NO. OptimalGrid is not a toolkit. It takes a very different approach compared to existing grid tools. In the classic distributed programming case (like Globus), the user creates his program and then uses the Globus API to help distribute it. In OptimalGrid, the user supplies a “program plug-in” — just the code that represents the user’s basic problem algorithm — and OptimalGrid manages everything else — the problem partitioning, the problem piece deployment, the runtime management, the dynamic level of parallelism, the dynamic load balancing and even the system fault tolerance and recovery. OptimalGrid provides a level of “carefree” programming that was heretofore unobtainable. It is possible, with OptimalGrid, to simply define a connected problem and have it run over thousands of machines. Such a venture, using “hand-coded” methods, would require not just a distributed programming expert, but a very lucky one, just to get the entire system to run.
