Grid computing is a new kind of distributed computing technology and computing environment,and also anattentive hot point of information technology in the world. It launches a space for new generation internal application,due to its supporting the complicated service efficiently and useable resource in the Internet. This paper sums up theresults and applications instance in the grid computing in the world during recent years ,and then analyzes emphaticallythe system architecture ,components ,working principle in the grid computing and some typical grid systems ,and thendiscusses the problems of the large scale science computing and network service in grid computing in China,and alsopoints out the future trends.