Toshiyuki Nakata wrote:
How about numerically intensive applications used in the enterprises such as Cirucuit simulation, financial calculations such as Risk analysis?
Also, heavy-duty floating-point simulation codes (of the general sort often associated with e-Science) are very useful for many fields of engineering. They also have extensive requirements for things like visualization and steering. Looks to me like almost anything can be called "Enterprise Grid Computing" and so the term isn't helping us understand what is going on from a Grid perspective. Glossaries definitely should not be muddying the waters, whatever else they do. The way I've seen the term "Enterprise Grid Computing" actually used in presentations though is much more restrictive: "Managed Datacenter Grid Computing" would probably be an accurate characterization. Were we to use that term, it would leave the EGC term free to mean "all grid computing that is supporting an enterprise", of which MDGC is an important sub-category. In doing that, it would make it far easier to reach out to other kinds of enterprises where the major grid challenges are not in datacenter management; one of the things I hear from talking to people who consider themselves to be working on a "Mobile Grid" is that "GGF/OGSA only deals with HPC and datacenters" which I know to be not true - those are merely areas that have been focussed on initially. Donal (I know it's OGF now, but they don't.)