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* An earlier example of the notion of computing as the utility was in 1965 by MIT's Fernando Corbató. Corbató and the other designers of the Multics operating system envisioned a computer facility operating “like a power company or water company”.<ref>[http://www.multicians.org/fjcc3.html Structure of the Multics Supervisor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116070940/http://www.multicians.org/fjcc3.html |date=2014-01-16 }}. Multicians.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.</ref>

* Buyya/Venugopal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buyya.com/papers/GridIntro-CSI2005.pdf|title=A Gentle Introduction to Grid Computing and Technologies|access-date=May 6, 2005|archive-date=March 24, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060324161402/http://www.buyya.com/papers/GridIntro-CSI2005.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> define grid as "a type of parallel and distributed system that enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomous]] resources dynamically at runtime depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements".

*[[CERN]], one of the largest users of grid technology, talk of '''The Grid''': “a service for sharing computer power and data storage capacity over the [[Internet]].”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gridcafe.org|title=The Grid Café&nbsp;– The place for everybody to learn about grid computing|publisher=[[CERN]]|access-date=December 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205082353/http://www.gridcafe.org/|archive-date=December 5, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==