Parameter Grid Computing Cloud Computing
1) Goal Collaborating sharing of resources Use of service
2) Level of abstraction Low (more details) High(less details)
3) Multitasking Yes Yes
4) Transparency Low High
5) Time to Run No Real Time Real Time Service
6) Request Type Few but large allocations Lots of small allocations
7) Security Low High
8) Infrastructure Low Level High Level
9) operating system Any standard OS A hypervisor on which multiple OS's can run
10) Ownership Multiple Single
11) Resource Management Distributed Centralised/Distributed
12) Failure Management Limited Strong
13) User friendly Low High
14) Number of users Few Large
15) Future Cloud computing Next generation of internet