If I said, “tell me everything you know about grid computing in 10 seconds…” you’d almost certainly mention IBM, maybe Oracle and Sun, you’d probably say “clusters” and if you’re a ...

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.

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, in his blog post announcing CCI, says that some larger clients have been using EC2 in a grid-like manner for high-performance computing since it first launched.

Certainly for Grid computing environments — my perception has been that the lion’s share of major deployments out there today are running on Linux. This applies to both research / academic ...

Cloud computing vs Grid computing To understand the basic and complex differences between cloud and grid computing, we really need to explain both technologies. Here’s how they are defined.

New technology and commodity hardware widen grids' reach, but perception barriers remain.

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 ...

Fewer than one in 10 businesses is planning to adopt grid computing because of concerns about cost, complexity and security, according to a survey of IT managers. Out of the 100 IT managers ...

Sun released Tuesday its Grid Engine Enterprise Edition 5.3, an updated beta version of the company's widely adopted resource allocation software that already manages in excess of 118,000 CPUs.

Although CERN has some significant computing resources, they contribute only about 10-15 percent of the total CPU power dedicated to the data coming out of the LHC, and most of the work on-site is ...