Grid Computing Key players Andrew Chien Entropia Peer-to-Peer Working Group Andrew Grimshaw Avaki; U. Virginia Commercial grid software Miron Livny U. Wisconsin, Madison Open-source system to ...

Charles Schwab's new Linux-based grid computing system, developed with help from IBM, includes only 12 servers now. But starting next year, the discount brokerage plans to tap into thousands of ...

The Global Grid Forum (GGF) A community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or grid technologies.

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

A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products. Mark Parsons, the ...

Grid Computing Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap.

What do you get when academia's grid computing experts meet Web services heavyweights such as IBM and Sun? The Global Grid Forum in Toronto, where the two camps will pool resources.

Grid computing to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world.

Grid computing, long used by physicists and astronomers to crunch masses of data quickly and efficiently, is making the leap into the world of biomedicine. Researchers have networked hundreds of ...