Microsoft will have its hands full with its Bigtop grid computing as it challenges technologies with years of history and powerful supporters.

IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality. "Grid" technology, which distributes computing jobs and databases across numerous ...

One notable example is the Access Grid, an Argonne-developed system-based, like so much else in grid computing, on Globus-that supports large-scale, multisite meetings over the Internet, as well ...

David Pallmann shows how to perform grid computations on the Azure cloud computing platform. In Part 1 he presents a design pattern, while Part 2&3 will contain a concrete code example.

So I suppose that might be sort of an example of grid computing, though purists would probably disagree. And with that, I'm out of ideas, even bad ones.

Grid computing for the masses Date: February 15, 2010 Source: ICT Results Summary: Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule ...

From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. But accessing limited grid resources is not always a ...

It is the popularity of these examples and the initial success of grid computing in the research environment that has led to increased interest in grid technology from industries such as financial ...

For example, Platform Computing ‘s distributed computing software was used to link 70,000 computers via the ‘Net to map, classify and compare more than 500,000 proteins (the Decrypthon Project).

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 ...