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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 ...

According to Gartner, if the concept of grid computing meets widespread acceptance, it could forever alter the role of service providers. In an interview with TechRepublic, Bernhard Borges, managing ...

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating ‘Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

With an increasing amount and complexity of data in genomics and genetics that is generated by today's high-throughput technologies, the demand for computational power has become an issue that ...

NASA and Boeing launch grid systems to share resources, contain costs. Piyush Mehrotra isn’t exaggerating when he says the data collected and maintained by his organization’s computing systems spans ...

People don’t talk much about grid computing much these days anymore, but most application teams th at require high performance from their infrastructure are actually addicted to grid computing -- ...

Grid computing is a parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are shared across a network, and all machines function as one large supercomputer. Grid computing is a parallel processing ...

When I think of grid computing, for some reason I think of my waffle iron. In addition to being grid-shaped, it makes high-performance waffles — nice and crisp with perfectly shaped ridges just ...