Cloud computing and Grid computing are the two words that end up confusing many people as they are similar in theory. We explain the differences.

With roots in computer clustering and grid computing, the technology that first sprouted during the ASP era of the late 1990s is now the computing topic du jour.

However, the vast amount of data needed to operate today’s grid requires the scale and speed of cloud computing to gather, analyze and derive the necessary insights for a more modern grid.

Years before Amazon Web Services launched in March 2006, there were a slew of grid computing startups and incumbent system ...

How is cloud computing different from utility, on-demand and grid computing? Cloud by its nature is “on-demand” and includes attributes previously associated with utility and grid models.

Finally, the project organised a series of workshops around the topic of grid computing marketplaces and the economics of cloud computing.

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.

He points, for example, to the emerging integration of grid computing with cloud computing in which storage as well as computational resources are distributed.

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...