I love grid technology; I've been using it for years without really knowing what it was, and now I spend part of my time explaining to people how it can best be used and hot to develop grid based applications.

Sometimes explaining the benefits is difficult, often explaining the fundamentals is even more complicated because the basics of how the grid system works is completely different to how we have been using computing power for the last 30 years.

In reality of course it is only an evolution of the computing technology that is available. In the early days we used monolithic mainframes, then we moved to desktops, through client server, and we've even dabbled in terminal services (something I pondered about earlier this week).