(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 ...

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.

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.

Parallel computing speeds up data crunching. Projects that took hours now take seconds. It's the fundamental concept that, along with advanced semiconductors, has ushered in the AI boom. Increased ...

Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped". Written by Iain Ferguson, Contributor May ...