David Berlind did this excellent interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch, who is one of the pioneers of grid technology,anddispels some of the myths of grid computing. In the past, I've tried to dispel ...

In fact, enterprises of all types are already using a simple form of grid computing within their firewalls to economically meet processing needs.

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 ...

Plugging Into Computing Power Grids To meet growing demands for processing power, companies are finding distributed computing systems a low-cost, scalable alternative.

This may seem like an obvious distinction, but a lot of coverage seems to gloss over the distinction between two aspects of support for grid or cloud computing: Making software run at all on many ...

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.

What's new: The pioneers of grid computing have formed a new start-up based on a software project--the Globus Toolkit--that's so far been primarily used in academic settings. Bottom line: A lot of ...

High Performance Computing and High Performance Technical Computing in my experience are cluster-based highly complex propositions not undertaken lightly.

CIO has been writing about grid computing for a while now. In last May’s True Grid, we quote some practitioners and recount their experiences, offer questions to see if grid’s right for you ...

The system is the regions biggest grid computing system and places the UAE University in the Top 500 list of high performance computing grids worldwide. The super grid is deployed in service of the ...