I just came across a pretty old blog about GridGain where a user explained his experiences with GridGain and had a brief Q&A via comments.
When asked about difference between GridGain and Globus I think he gave a spot-on answer:
"No, I’ve never worked with the Globus Toolkit. From what I’ve read, Globus is more about collaboration of organizations (forming "virtual organizations") and solving all the problems that come with it like interoperability and security concerns.Although this conversation took place about 2 years ago and GridGain had since evolved into a Cloud Development Platform with aplenty of new features, our (quoting) "strong focus on simplicity and developer usability" has not changed. Even with such features in the pipeline as data grid and hands-free self-scaling on the clouds, GridGain developers will still enjoy the same simple deployment-less process:
GridGain on the other hand has a strong focus on simplicity and developer usability. I think it’s perfect for "local" grids with perhaps a few dozens (or hundreds?) of nodes. You can certainly build a more comprehensive solution on top of GridGain, but the local computational grid use case is where it is best suited at the moment.
In my concrete case at work we’ve got a highly secured internal network and need a convenient solution for distributing the workload to boost throughput. Globus looks like overkill, but I’m confident that GridGain is the right thing for us."
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A lot has happened since I wrote the blog entry you're quoting. Our GridGain-based project had a lot of management attention and visibility throughout the organization due to our controversial architecture and technology choice. In the end, the project was tremendously successful although we had to go through some rough patches with GridGain. We suffered a lot from stability/robustness issues caused by frequent network changes and from memory leaks that were hard to debug.
I quit after the project was finished, but I heard the application has been expanded and the grid size has recently exceeded 60 instances. That's three times as much as when we started.
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