Once grid computing becomes widespread, companies will be able to pay for supercomputing power by the hour rather than investing in highly expensive mainframes that sit idle much of the time.

The main parts of the grid computing system will be housed in data storage facilities set up around the nation as the grid grows, Hollebeek said. The goal is to link some 2,000 hospitals and ...

The system is the regions biggest grid computing system and places the UAE University in the Top 500 list of high performance computing grids worldwide. The super grid is deployed in service of the ...

Charles Schwab's new Linux-based grid computing system, developed with help from IBM, includes only 12 servers now. But starting next year, the discount brokerage plans to tap into thousands of ...

Oracle does much of its database design on grid systems, while Intel has been designing chips on its in-house NetBatch grid for more than 10 years. Indeed, it's the electronic design and life sciences ...

For UPS, grid computing is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition.

The data grid differs from a computing grid, in which systems can take advantage of hardware resources such as idle CPU cycles, although the two will be part of the same infrastructure. Data grids ...

NEC Corporation is to provide Mazda Motor Corp. with an experimental grid computing system that will undergo testing in 2005, the companies said today.

The Hong Kong government and private sectors have been called on to back a revolutionary plan to share and access all computing resources in the SAR as easily as electricity from a wall socket.