gridcomputingplatform

noun
UK /ɡrɪd kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ ˈplætfɔːm/
US /ɡrɪd kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ ˈplætfɔːrm/

A grid computing platform is a system that lets many computers work together like one big computer to solve hard problems.

The scientists used a grid computing platform to process millions of weather records overnight.

SYNONYMS

distributed computing platformcluster computing systemparallel processing platformshared computing network

RELATED WORDS

grid computingdistributed systemcloud computingmiddlewarenode

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A software framework that manages and schedules jobs across multiple networked computers.

The grid computing platform assigned each simulation task to the least busy machine.

3. A shared infrastructure that pools computing resources from different organizations for joint research.

Universities joined the grid computing platform to share spare processing power.

4. A middleware layer that hides the complexity of distributed hardware from users.

Thanks to the grid computing platform, the researchers did not need to know which server ran their code.