After Internet2, “grids” may be the next big thing in high-performance computing. A grid is a network of computational research centers whose supercomputer clusters, databases, and specialized ...

Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane uses by ...

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According to Gartner, if the concept of grid computing meets widespread acceptance, it could forever alter the role of service providers. In an interview with TechRepublic, Bernhard Borges, managing ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

This turned out to be a pretty nerdy post, but there are nuggets you might be able to use as small talk in the next mosh pit you visit. (Hey, it's worth a try.) The World Community Grid is a network ...

For enterprise software engineers that want to cut their teeth on Grid computing development, a new release by Charles River Media, Inc. “Grid Computing for Developers” might be worth taking a look at ...

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively. Depending on who describes it, grid computing has grown from ...

More hype than reality, grid computing is at this point little more than a marketing message from the major vendors looking to sell server management software. Of the IT managers Nucleus interviewed, ...

In the past several years, scientific and information technology publications have either encouraged or debated the use of grid computing. Major hardware and software companies have tried to take ...