Grid computing squares up to life in the financial sector.(User Case Study) From: RETHINK IT | Date: November 1, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Rethink Research Associates. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Grid computing has until recently been associated mainly with academic and advanced science applications such as drugs research. Its approach is ideally suited in these compute-intensive tasks--pooling storage and other resources across the whole network so that complex programs can harness huge amounts of power, and applications can draw on resources from anywhere on the system as they need them, just as they would on the electricity grid.

Now grid advocates are startin...