I'm not sure I completely understand what you are asking. Regarding uniformity of APIs (in other words: Standards), this has been talked about ever since the G

I'm not sure I completely understand what you are asking. Regarding uniformity of APIs (in other words: Standards), this has been talked about ever since the Grid Computing term was coined. It just never became widely accepted. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_Toolkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_Toolkit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Grid_Forum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Grid_Forum Is this what you were asking for?