At Gartner’s recent IT Symposium event, Steve Ballmer called high performance clusters a “Linux stronghold,” and explained that Microsoft is gunning for the market with a cluster edition of Windows ...

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 ...

The University of Florida has bought a lower-end IBM z800 mainframe along with 32 Intel servers to investigate grid computing, a method of spreading calculations across groups of machines. The z800 ...

BOSTON — Among the people on hand here for the GridWorld conference today was Randy Manchester, Linux systems manager at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Manchester is ...

Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...