Cloud computing and Grid computing are the two words that end up confusing many people as they are similar in theory. We explain the differences.

As someone who has spent the better part of two decades optimizing distributed systems—from early MapReduce clusters to ...

The main difference between this idea and grid computing is that Web services software tends to be much more closely tied to the World Wide Web protocols, as well as to Web-based standards such as ...

Fiorina also sought to draw a line between grid computing and distributed computing, the latter being a more than 20-year-old concept, she said.

The Global Grid Forum (GGF) A community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or grid technologies.

Grid computing, long used by physicists and astronomers to crunch masses of data quickly and efficiently, is making the leap into the world of biomedicine. Researchers have networked hundreds of ...

MapleSoft’s Grid Computing Toolbox enables distributed computing using Maple, a WYSIWYG math environment for solving complex mathematical problems and creating rich technical documents. With ...

"Grid computing, which allows users to access the computing resources of many different machines distributed around the world, has been invaluable to science.

Grid computing is a natural evolution of distributed computing. For compute-heavy applications such as scientific calculations, grid computing has delivered strong cost savings.

Fiorina also sought to draw a line between grid computing and distributed computing, the latter being a more than 20-year-old concept, she said.