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 ...

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 ...

In the last few, years grid computing has found its way into the de-duplicating, disk-based data protection space. This is curious considering the stigmas normally associated with grid computing. The ...

Database-software maker Oracle is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing, an Oracle executive said Wednesday. Addressing the crowd ...

Find grid news, events, activities, tools and systems, plus information on computational economy, portals, programming environments, applications, test beds and more here. A community-initiated forum ...

The program is expected to be based in part on a current push to get Sun's European solution providers to work with grid computing, said Peter Jeffcock, group marketing manager for Sun's Grid ...

The European Union has decided to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to the latest computing trends--it's putting $63.4 million into grids. The grid handout will be put into 12 separate ...

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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This turned out to be a pretty nerdy post, but there are nuggets you might be able to use as small talk in the next mosh pit you visit. (Hey, it's worth a try.) The World Community Grid is a network ...

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 ...