1. A grid computing system, comprising: a master node configured to manage a grid comprising one or more compute nodes; a node configured to send the master node information about compute node configuration of the node in accordance with one or more peer-to-peer platform protocols; wherein the master node is configured to: determine from the information about compute node configuration that the compute node configuration of the node needs to be updated; and send update information for the compute node configuration to the node in accordance with the one or more peer-to-peer platform protocols in response to said determination that the compute node configuration of the node needs to be updated.