Grids meet Too much Computing , Too much Data and never Too much Simplicity

Let us discuss: Grids are taking too long to solve the wrong problem at the wrong point in stack with a complexity that makes friendly usability difficult. We furthermore observe that Grids (as envisioned c. 2001) are being pressured by both emerging new computing resources (multicore, cell processors, GPUs, reconfigurable computing, etc) and alternative approaches to service architectures (collectively, Web 2.0). We thus believe it is time to reappraise Grids—both the nature of the resources that they aggregate and the middleware that glues these resources together.