The grid hosting system emerged around 1990 as a new means of parallel computing. The grid system refers to the flexibility and high power accessibility of the electronic power grid systems. The field suffered absence of the proper system for intensive research based works where the central processing unit performance has to be high end. Around 1997 came the volunteer computing which again received a new dimension at 1999.

The grid hosting flourished as a system distributed computing. It lacks the domination of supercomputing process as well as the requirement of local high speed connection through multi-numbered processors. The equally distributed power structure has made the grid hosting hardware viable for separate purchase and replacement procedure. The system is structured with clustered networked and free coupled network computers.

The system interconnection is characterized by heterogeneous features and the nodals are coupled loosely considering other systems. The system is flexible in considering the geographical disparity. The middleware as well as other software with general purpose structure can be used to build specialized grid hosting system.

The grid hosting flourished in various fields as objective programming, web hosting, distributed computing etc. Ian Foster, Steve Tuecke and Carl Kesselman defined the structure of the field at its initial period with immense contribution. They are known as ‘father of the grid’. The application of grid hosting was explored with other dimensions as trigger services, agreement negotiation, information aggregation, notification mechanism etc.

Afterwards various agents started offering grid solutions with grid computing as well as grid hosting along with application hosting in many cases.

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