Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices have unveiled a grid applications showcase in Singapore in a bid to drive regional adoption of the technology. The Business Grid technology showcase ...

Charles Schwab & Co. this week went live with a grid computing system and said it has already improved performance by an order of magnitude on the first investment management application that’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data replication is a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, crucial for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid data access in both cloud and grid environments. Contemporary ...

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 ...

Whether dealing with high-power particle accelerators, astronomical observatories or Earth-watching spacecraft, modern science involves vast volumes of information, and researchers require powerful ...

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 ...

Mysterious grid-computing technology developer Grid-X landed an additional $800,000 in funding to continue the development of its 100-gigabit Ethernet offload engine for cluster computing. The funding ...

IBM increased the number of industry-specific grid computing products in its roster Monday, bringing custom grid-computing applications and services to the petroleum, agricultural chemicals, ...

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 ...