Certainly for Grid computing environments — my perception has been that the lion’s share of major deployments out there today are running on Linux.

Corey Klaasmeyer defines grid computing and contrasts it with cluster computing. This article also leads the reader through a simple Globus Toolkit 4 grid service implementation.

Cluster computing refers to the combination of several servers, usually in the same physical location, all tasked to the same computing project. Cluster computing differs from grid computing in ...

What makes a grid? Heterogeneity, flexibility and reliability set grids apart from supercomputers, server farms, clusters and peer-to-peer schemes Distributed control Not as centralized as a ...

Grid computing Grid systems are designed for collaborative sharing of resources. It can also be thought of as distributed and large-scale cluster computing.

A grid researcher claims that many companies offering 'grid computing' are actually just putting a spin on cluster computing ...

Linux clustering is widely regarded as the third stage of evolution in high-performance computing.

This collection of 85 papers from the May 2001 symposium presents developments in cluster and grid computing that enable applications to share resources and content across the Internet in a peer ...

Grid computing is a hardware and software infrastructure that clusters and integrates high-end computers, networks, databases and scientific instruments from multiple sources to form a virtual ...

Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped".