Grid Computing and GridSim Toolkit: An overview

In Grid Computing technology the fundamental concept that is used is to connect the geographically distributed resources. Commercial networks have been used for this purpose due to which some network effects get introduced in grid computing. This paper gives an introduction to grid computing technology. In this paper some of the problems of resource management and scheduling have also been addressed which includes the management of resources and scheduling of applications according to the requirements of consumers and owners. The GridSim toolkit has been developed to overcome the above problems. An introduction to this toolkit is also given in this paper