But Ian Foster of the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., coleader of the Globus Project, an open-source grid computing initiative, says distributed computing is a scaled-down subset of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

But distributed computing, like many nascent high-tech ideas people are trying to turn into start-up businesses, has fallen on hard times. Shunning Entropia's model, IBM prefers to use a smaller ...

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 ...

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.

Grid Computing Key players Andrew Chien Entropia Peer-to-Peer Working Group Andrew Grimshaw Avaki; U. Virginia Commercial grid software Miron Livny U. Wisconsin, Madison Open-source system to ...

Building the future grid will require an overall view of the quantum computing technology applications in power systems, such as the dynamic interaction of the transmission and distribution systems.

“Distributed computing is not dying any more than chemistry or mathematics are dying,” he said. Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology journalist based in Orange County, California (not ...