Grid Computing is an emerging computing model that treats all resources as a collection of manageable entities with common interfaces to such functionality as lifetime management, discoverable properties and accessibility via open protocols. Today resource allocation in a grid is increasingly done in accordance with SLAs (service level agreements).

1. Grid Computing 101 - Ever wanted to know what this grid computing thing is about? What you can do with it?

2. Grid Computing @ Oracle OpenWorld - Dell and Grid Computing

3. Introduction to Grid Engine - Introduction to grid computing and the Grid Engine product with Fritz Ferstl and Miha Ahronovitz. Includes demo.

4. Prius lecture - Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware: Powering e-Science and e-Bussines Applications

5. BOINC - Dr. David Anderson describes SETI@home, BOINC and Distributed Computing.