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 ...

BOSTON — Moving grid computing out of the technical and scientific realm and into mainstream business use is going to require development work by vendors as well as the adoption of standards, IT ...

Two key computing initiatives are set to merge. The Global Grid Forum, the entity that creates grid computing specifications, recently decided to re-engineer grid computing standards, merging them ...

Andrew Chien Entropia Peer-to-Peer Working Group Andrew Grimshaw Avaki; U. Virginia Commercial grid software Miron Livny U. Wisconsin, Madison Open-source system to harness idle workstations Steven ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

The European Union has decided to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to the latest computing trends--it's putting $63.4 million into grids. The grid handout will be put into 12 separate ...

If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...