I'm actually employed to do research in grid computing... one thing I've found is that for all the talk of cloud computing, there are very few mature actual im

I'm actually employed to do research in grid computing... one thing I've found is that for all the talk of cloud computing, there are very few mature actual implementations of software solutions for it, and the one I've worked with (Globus) is chaotic and byzantine in its architecture, difficult to set up and difficult to use! (It was designed by committee, as far as I can tell.) If Globus is any indication of the state of art, the field needs for someone to totally rethink our approach and make a simple solution, not a committee solution.