Because of the huge expense of computers in the 1960s and 1970s, mainframes and minicomputers were time-shared machines, and capacity was often rented out under a utility model. Such were the roots 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 ...

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.

Itron's Nick Tumilowicz asserts a need for an integrated approach to grid management that processes and acts on real-time data at the edge.

Grid Computing Planet An Internet.com portal on grid computing. Find news, feature stories, a list of frequently asked questions and information on grid computing projects here.

One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based ...

Two key computing initiatives are set to merge. The Global Grid Forum, the entity that creates grid computing specifications, recently decided to re-engineer grid computing standards, merging them ...

The appeal of grid computing to the scientific community, financial services companies, the pharmaceutical industry and other compute-intensive users is strong and growing, according to those on ...

Grid computing is a way to share computing resources within and among organizations. The concept first emerged in the mid-1990s as academic researchers began exploring the rudiments of grid ...

Datawars: Grid Computing Democratizes Proteomics Erica P. Johnson The young field of proteomics has quickly risen to match physics and meteorology in its huge appetite for computational capacity.

Quantum computing, which leverages the unique properties of qubits enabling faster solutions to the unit commitment problem as compared with classical computers, can potentially improve the analysis ...