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 ...

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 ...

Energy costs must really be getting to Google. In addition to its recently announced forays into geothermal energy and floating data centers, it’s also partnering with General Electric Co. to work on ...

Cloud computing supports cybersecurity, helps maintain operational resilience, and provides robust backup capabilities.

Atom Computing and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently announced a collaborative project to explore the first use of quantum computing to assist in the management and optimization ...

Data replication is a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, crucial for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid data access in both cloud and grid environments. Contemporary ...

Grid computing, which had already caught the attention of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., is now being targeted by another major hardware vendor: Compaq Computer Corp. The three server rivals this ...

Office politics and other social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, according to a study released ...

BOSTON — On most days, the big enterprise vendors, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., knock one another’s technology in their fight for customers. But today at a conference on grid ...

NEC Corporation is to provide Mazda Motor Corp. with an experimental grid computing system that will undergo testing in 2005, the companies said today. If the tests are successful, NEC hopes to become ...