Research summary on synergy between P2P computing and grid computing

Peer-to-peer (P2P) Computing and Grid Computing are promising distributed computing. With their development, the synergy between Grid Computing and P2P Computing is inevitable, and it will benefit them to make up their deficiencies. Their synergy can utilize more desktop PC resources, effectively avoid single failure of server, extend application domain of Grid Computing, adopt excellent resource discovery means such as DHT, and make use of standard architecture OGSA to realize genuine Grid Computing. In. this paper, the difference between Grid Computing and P2P Computing is analyzed, and synergic phase, synergic significance, synergic pattern, synergic paradigm, synergic problem between Grid Computing and P2P Computing are summarized.