Grid and Portable and Multimedia Resources Asignatura: Aplicaciones Distribuídas Avanzadas

Grid computing and infraestructure is being widely deployed in research, commercial and educational environments with the intention of taking advantage of the big amount of computers interconnected in campuses and enterprises. These computers, besides of being connected through LANs and MANs, have a huge amount of resources (CPU time, CPU power, bandwidth, graphical processors, etc) that may be very useful for the implementation of many kinds of distributed services. At the same time, there are a big number of initiatives to give portable computers, cell phones and PDAs the opportunity of being not only portable, but wireless, wearable and multimedia (MM). With this article the author will try to give some clues about the way this two environments (Portable/MM and Grid computing) may be combined to form a powerful and practical solution.