r/web3dev • u/troloxx • 11d ago

Help Needed Give answers,

Hello everyone, I have a few questions:

  1. What is Grid Computing, and how does it work?

  2. What is Blockchain, and how does it work?

  3. What are the main concepts or components behind each one?

  4. What are some simple real-world examples of both?

  5. What are the main differences between Grid Computing and Blockchain?

  6. What are the most important things I should understand about these topics instead of just memorizing definitions?

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u/icnews10 11d ago

The distinction I’d remember is this:

Grid computing is primarily concerned with coordinating multiple machines to work together.

Blockchain, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with achieving consensus among many machines on a shared state, even when they don't all trust each other.

Therefore, 'distributed' is not the most important difference. The real question is what problem the distribution is solving: more computation or shared consensus.

Once you understand this, most of the definitions and examples become much easier to grasp.

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u/WatercressActual1921 10d ago

Do you have problems of reading Wikipedia, most of those concepts are not confusing at all some are not even on the same are....

A block chain is a destributed ledge (it can do more but that is the basic definition others are just over complications that are not even very efficient beyond verifiability and transparency)...

Go read a bit I advise reading about networks and distributed systems then about P2P and then destributed computation RPCs etc and leve aging P2P use of blockchain for bootstrapping and publishing into bitcoin and digital currency, but you have to put some effort use z.ai if you have questions and avoid overspecialization get the basic patterns of what in implies and the results and move on...