What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products. Mark Parsons, the commercial ...

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.

Having jumped into the world of Linux with a $1 billion commitment this year, IBM is now about to make a foray into what it thinks will be the next big direction in IT: grid computing. The idea, to ...

Remote working has always been there; but in the aftermath of the pandemic, it has largely supplanted the traditional in-office work. Since employees are working from different corners of the world, ...

BOSTON — Among the people on hand here for the GridWorld conference today was Randy Manchester, Linux systems manager at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Manchester is ...

Being middleware, BOINC isn’t nearly as well known as some of the grid computing-based volunteer projects – like SETI@home and Rosetta@home — that exploit it. But the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for ...