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.

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.

Because of the huge expense of computers in the 1960s and 1970s, mainframes and minicomputers were time-shared machines, and ...

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.

Like the electrical grid in its time, a ubiquitous cloud will permit customers -- including federal agencies -- to take advantage of pooling, economies of scale and comparative advantage to ...

And as grid computing evolves in the financial services industry, retail banking and card units are climbing aboard; van Uden envisions a day when many institutions will push their grid computing into ...

By introducing private cloud management capabilities, armed with standard host repurposing tools, any types of grid deployments can go from being static to dynamic.