Although grids and clusters may both satisfy high-performance or high-throughput requirements by enabling distributed computing, grids solve the more complicated problem of providing computing ...

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 ...

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, ...

BOSTON — Moving grid computing out of the technical and scientific realm and into mainstream business use is going to require development work by vendors as well as the adoption of standards, IT ...

The Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) and computer giant IBM are teaming up through an applied research award to create a pilot computer grid that, if successful, could one day ...

If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. The company, called Univa and based near Chicago, is building its business on the ...