Corey Klaasmeyer defines grid computing and contrasts it with cluster computing. This article also leads the reader through a simple Globus Toolkit 4 grid service implementation.

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 ...

These types of problems are “embarrassingly parallel,” in the words of Shahin Khan, Sun Microsystems Inc.s vice president of high-performance and technical computing, because theyre so ...

Grid Computing, The New Commodity Date: August 25, 2009 Source: ICT Results Summary: Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of ...

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.

For enterprise software engineers that want to cut their teeth on Grid computing development, a new release by Charles River Media, Inc. “Grid Computing for Developers” might be worth taking a ...

Big Blue is reaching out to several new types of customers with offers that link groups of computers and storage systems to tackle difficult computing tasks.