A Review on Peer-to-Peer Grids Computing

In recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) grids have emerged as a new powerful computing infrastructure which allows participating peers or end users to share their resources in an efficient manner. Peer-to-Peer Grid built around integration of technologies from the Peer-to-Peer and Grid fields. Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a distributed network architecture that provides resource sharing and collaboration between peers that are equally privileged, equipotent participants without the need for a central server or authority for coordination and control. While Grid systems are applied in some large scientific computing centers in order to make full use of the shared resources, such as computer CPUs, storage, data, software and instruments in structured and secured manner. In this paper, we take some first steps toward comparing and contrasting P2P and Grid computing then intends to review the background, challenges, emerging trends, future prospects and the potential for Peer-to-Peer Grids.