What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

Grid computing to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world. Stephen Shankland ...

Peer-to-peer or grid computing has been around for quite a few years now. Corporate enterprises have shown little interest, but the scientific community has embraced it as a means to enable its ...

Grid computing is a natural evolution of distributed computing. For compute-heavy applications such as scientific calculations, grid computing has delivered strong cost savings. Yet for more ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices have unveiled a grid applications showcase in Singapore in a bid to drive regional adoption of the technology. The Business Grid technology showcase ...

In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.

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 ...