A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products. Mark Parsons, the commercial ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

Remote working has always been there; but in the aftermath of the pandemic, it has largely supplanted the traditional in-office work. Since employees are working from different corners of the world, ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

Grid computing to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world. Stephen Shankland ...

Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) cluster computing products can now run a Microsoft cluster operating system, which should be helpful to end users familiar with the ubiquitous Windows operating system. HP said ...

Microsoft and EMC are getting into the cluster and grid computing game. Microsoft in November introduced the second beta of its Windows Compute Cluster Server, while EMC earlier this month announced ...

Oracle aims to pick up the tempo on its grid computing beat this week by unveiling the latest version of its flagship database, an iteration the company believes is primed to enable grids for ...