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.

He agreed grid computing is a compelling technology that big companies are embracing, but said small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are more likely to watch and wait for the time being.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

First, using a grid computing architecture addresses a conundrum that exists in disk-based data protection: providing high-performance and ample storage capacity at low costs.

Adding renewable energy and energy storage capacity brings an added layer of complexity to traditional electrical grid systems. Balancing supply and demand of energy for power systems, even under ...