Compare and contrast grid computing and the power grid. Explain how the analogy makes sense. Also, explain how the analogy breaks down.
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In both cases we have an interconnected network of devices serving some useful purpose. The generating systems may be thought of as powerful resources supplying power to the industrial and residential users of electricity. In grid computing the flow of information is more two-way (or even n-way). There are dramatic differences in the way things are paid for where in the electric grid the consumers pay the producers whereas in grid computing additional revenue streams may be provided by advertisers or others wishing to use information generated by the grid. In the case of the power grid there are a relatively small number of suppliers and a vast number of consumers. In grid computing there would perhaps be far more consumers than producers but far more producers that in the case of the power grid.
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