People don’t talk much about grid computing much these days anymore, but most application teams th at require high performance from their infrastructure are actually addicted to grid computing -- ...

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating ‘Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

The mysteries of dark matter, multiple dimensions and even the conditions following the Big Bang could be solved with the help of the world's biggest computer grid — a big chunk of which is being ...

The grid computing paradigm is replacing localized computer clusters or the traditional “supercomputer” model for research and industry enterprises requiring increasingly large amounts of processing ...

Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardized computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...

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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 ...

IBM aims to take the lead in distributed computing by creating the world's largest networked computing grid for scientific applications: the World Community Grid. The WCG is like the many distributed ...

A couple of years ago Citigroup?s Capital Markets division faced a problem that most large trading enterprises were also confronting: an ever-increasing need for processing power to handle the risk ...

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 ...

In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...