Sector Operational Program ' Improvement of the Economical Competitiveness ' co financed by the Regional Development European Found ' Investments for your future' Centre for resources GRID-BENCHMARKING for analyse, assessment and data processing for improving the organisations competitiveness in order to achieve the high performance/ GRID-BENCHMARK GRID COMPUTING - SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH

In this paper are presented some more important issues from GRID computing history, the development at worldwide and European level and also in Romania, a short description and the connection with the application GRID - BENCHMARKING. The GRID computing concept resembles with the Internet one. The Internet includes a worldwide network for data and information. GRID provides a very high level processing power, available worldwide. GRIDs use available resources at a certain moment on more separated computing systems, interconnected by a network (example Internet) in order to solve intensive problems thinking to the execution time or to the common resources worldwide. By the project financed by Structural Founds The GRID Centre for Resources will join the national/European/international network to run its own applications or of the others.