Kemunculan perkomputeran grid telah membolehkan perkongsian sumber perkomputeran
teragih antara peserta-peserta organisasi maya. Walau bagaimanapun, sistem pengoperasian
kini tidak memberi sokongan paras rendah secukupnya untuk perlaksanaan perisian
grid. Kemunculan suatu kelas sistem pengoperasian yang dipanggil sistem pengoperasian
grid memberikan pengabstrakan peringkat sistem untuk sumber-sumber grid
The advent of grid computing has enabled distributed computing resources to be shared
amongst participants of virtual organisations. However, current operating systems do not
adequately provide enough low-level facilities to accommodate grid software. There is an
emerging class of operating systems called grid operating systems which provide systemslevel
abstractions for grid resources
