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.

Mark Parsons, the commercial director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) and the National e-Science Centre, said at an EPCC seminar in London on Wednesday that grid computing ...

(1) May refer to a cloud computing service that provides a complete server infrastructure but not applications. See cloud computing. (2) A parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources ...

The Parallel & Distributed Computing Lab (PDCL) conducts research at the intersection of high performance computing and big data processing. Our group works in the broad area of Parallel & Distributed ...

Grid computing has been on the horizon for a long time. Some prognosticators say it's the next big thing. But it's SO big, it's daunting for many. This collection looks at the basics of grid as it ...

Wolfram Research has released gridMathematic, a parallel computing solution for dedicated grids or clusters. It can run on any cluster of machines including Mac OS X, Unix, Linux and Windows via ...

The basic idea of grid (a.k.a. “distributed computing” in its previous, more academic incarnation) is this: Tie many small computers together and use them as a sort of supercomputer.

The first two versions work best with "embarrassingly parallel" computing jobs, in which a task can easily be split so it runs on a large number of computing nodes, said Gord Watts, vice president ...

Entire grid environments are now available from several of Platform Computing's hardware partners that fit in a single, small enclosure and can be purchased for well below $50,000.