Cloud computing and Grid computing are the two words that end up confusing many people as they are similar in theory. Cloud computing and Grid computing involves a massive computer network ...

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 ...

Remote working has always been there; but in the aftermath of the pandemic, it has largely supplanted the traditional in-office work. Since employees are working from different corners of the world, ...

Advances in computing power and acceptance of open standards in data transport could provide engineers with fast and complete design solutions to their most intricate problems. Applying the Internet's ...

Find grid news, events, activities, tools and systems, plus information on computational economy, portals, programming environments, applications, test beds and more here. A community-initiated forum ...

If your large enterprise is like most, about 10 per cent of your available CPU cycles actually gets used – a fact that is driving enterprises to deploy the next generation of cost-reducing distributed ...

In early 2000, Cereon Genomics had a serious situation on its hands: It was running out of computing power. A genomics company based in Cambridge, Mass., Cereon combines genomics research tools with ...

Oracle is the latest giant to offer a grid product but its rivals believe the new offering is more of a 'cluster' repackage, … Oracle is the latest giant to offer a grid product but its rivals believe ...

This is the second of a series of newsletters based on a Server Computing 2004 presentation I gave at CD Expo’s Enterprise IT Week in Las Vegas last month. One of the trends in server computing is ...

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 ...