He defines distributed computing as harnessing desktop PCs within an enterprise to make a single resource, while grid computing involves diverse hardware that can extend beyond the enterprise.

Grid computing connects storage and data, as well as CPUs from multiple systems, into a centrally managed but flexible computing environment. True grid provides distributed resource management of ...

Businesses will soon be able to tap into the power of a virtual supercomputer by harnessing the energy of idle PCs anywhere in the world thanks to breakthroughs in so-called grid computing. The ...

IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality. "Grid" technology, which distributes computing jobs and databases across numerous ...

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 ...

Back in 2004, Wired had a piece on the LHC's grid network. Les Robertson, who studied with Peter Higgs (of the boson) and head of the grid, realized distributed computing was the way to go.

Markham, Ont.-based Platform Computing Inc. has released a beta version of its enterprise grid software solution to a financial institution to integrate all of its distributed IT assets, allowing ...

Grid Computing. Key players ... When it’s completed later this year, the general-purpose, distributed supercomputer will be capable of some 21 trillion floating-point operations per second, ...

The concept of distributed computing is simple enough: You take a very large project, slice it up into pieces, and send out individual pieces to PCs for processing.