list the administrator identifies any remote nodes to which or from which the execution node must transfer data 640 and calculates the data transfer time between each possible execution node and each remote node 645 the data transfer time is equal to the estimated amount of transferred data divided by the bandwidth of the preferred path the data transfer times then are added to be used as the data time metric the maximum tick value of any link in the paths between the execution nodes and the remote nodes is used as the tick metric the time metric and the tick metric then are multiplied and the product is recorded for each execution node the average over all calculated metrics for the possible execution nodes is the job 39 s network centricity value 650 fig7 illustrates the process of assigning resources to jobs 330 as described herein the process treats enterprise computing resources as a grid of resources which provides greater flexibility in assigning resources to jobs grid computing though is an emerging technology and can mean different things to different people see generally international business machines corp new to grid computing but as used here the concept of u201c grid computing u201d refers to a united pool of servers storage systems and networks in a single large system that can deliver the power of multiple.