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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardized computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...

Big Blue is reaching out to several new types of customers with offers that link groups of computers and storage systems to tackle difficult computing tasks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

The grid computing market outlook appears extremely promising, witnessing increasing numbers of commercial products available. Grid computing, a subset of distributed computing on a network connected ...

Just before I start writing, I look at the colorful blocks and jagged lines of the SETI at Home screen saver that runs on my workstation. SETI at Home is a distributed computing application that ...

Until now, these virtual supercomputing platforms were accessible only to large financial firms, federal government agencies and universities. But these projects might just turn this field around and ...

Derivatives can be a magic wand for money managers. Used properly, these complex financial contracts help maintain profits by keeping a handle on risk. But pricing them is the key. For derivative ...

Oracle chairman and CEO Larry Ellison kicked off the era of grid computing in feeble fashion on Tuesday, delivering a canned, droning speech that featured no demonstrations of how the technology is ...

Only one in five IT managers surveyed by analyst firm IDC understood grid computing with most respondents failing to see its value as a technology alternative that has any relevance in the real world.