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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In early 2000, Cereon Genomics had a serious situation on its hands: It was running out of computing power. A genomics company based in Cambridge, Mass., Cereon combines genomics research tools with ...

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 ...