Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

Organizations are increasingly turning to clustered low-cost Intel architecture (IA) systems and open source software like Linux to lower their hardware and software acquisition costs, enhance overall ...

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 ...

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One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans ...

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 ...

For UPS, is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition. “Using technology to ...

Grid computing is a natural evolution of distributed computing. For compute-heavy applications such as scientific calculations, grid computing has delivered strong cost savings. Yet for more ...

As the promise and possibilities of grid computing continue to unfold for business, research and science, fledgling users of the technology will now have a new partner to help them get started. IBM ...

Andrew Chien Entropia Peer-to-Peer Working Group Andrew Grimshaw Avaki; U. Virginia Commercial grid software Miron Livny U. Wisconsin, Madison Open-source system to harness idle workstations Steven ...