There are three radically different types of grid computing: ‘Net-based, enterprise and supply-chain.

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

David Berlind did this excellent interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch, who is one of the pioneers of grid technology,anddispels some of the myths of grid computing. In the past, I've tried to dispel ...

This may seem like an obvious distinction, but a lot of coverage seems to gloss over the distinction between two aspects of support for grid or cloud computing: Making software run at all on many ...

What now drives grid computing, however, is the cost-push of a commodity technology, rather than the demand-pull of problems worth solving at almost any price.

A grid is a wide-area network of computers used to process parts of the same problem. Unlike a cluster, grids tend to be loosely coupled in that there usually is no central control. The notion of grid ...

That's the message the backers of grid computing technology are sending to smaller businesses, and the numbers seem to back them up. A February report from Insight Research Corp. predicts that ...

The goal is to have enough types of applications?high priority and low, CPU-intensive and I/O-intensive?to fill every unused gap, no matter how small, in every grid-connected computer.

Grid computing may well turn out to be an exciting, groundbreaking technological development, but you wouldn't know it by its uninspiring debut.

Discovering new types of particles can only be done by statistical analysis of the massive amounts of data the experiments will generate — which is where the LHC Computing Grid project comes in.