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 ...

Apple Computer set its sights even more squarely on supercomputing and distributed grid computing this week with the preview and beta release of its Xgrid technology designed for scientists and their ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.

SuSE's new Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 for the Itanium processor was recently chosen to be one of the cogs in the TeraGrid project. TeraGrid is a distributed grid computing initiative run by several ...

Although grids and clusters may both satisfy high-performance or high-throughput requirements by enabling distributed computing, grids solve the more complicated problem of providing computing ...

(1) May refer to a cloud computing service that provides a complete server infrastructure but not applications. See cloud computing. (2) A parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are ...

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 ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corinex Communications Corp., a world leader in broadband-power line (“BPL”) technology, announced today the launch of its next-generation advanced ...