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 ...

According to Gartner, if the concept of grid computing meets widespread acceptance, it could forever alter the role of service providers. In an interview with TechRepublic, Bernhard Borges, managing ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Grid computing is an overnight success that has been ...

With an increasing amount and complexity of data in genomics and genetics that is generated by today's high-throughput technologies, the demand for computational power has become an issue that ...

Businesses will soon be able to tap into the power of a virtual supercomputer by harnessing the energy of idle PCs anywhere in the world thanks to breakthroughs in so-called grid computing. The ...

Security experts on Wednesday recommended that IT administrators clearly identify and understand the security risks associated with large-scale grid computing deployments. During Ziff Davis Medias ...

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- April 27, 2004 -- Oracle announced it has joined other industry leaders -- HP, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems -- in founding the Enterprise ...

When NVIDIA first announced that it would create a workstation-class remote virtualization system that enabled full GPU acceleration with latency-free streaming I was more than a little skeptical. Not ...