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 ...

At Gartner’s recent IT Symposium event, Steve Ballmer called high performance clusters a “Linux stronghold,” and explained that Microsoft is gunning for the market with a cluster edition of Windows ...

Businesses in Asia will soon be able to draw on commercial, pay-per-use grid-computing services, as part of a government-driven initiative to promote grid adoption for purposes beyond research. The ...

Office politics and other social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, according to a study released ...

Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...

BOSTON — Among the people on hand here for the GridWorld conference today was Randy Manchester, Linux systems manager at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Manchester is ...