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 ...

Grid Computing Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap.

A grid is a wide-area network of computers used to process parts of the same problem. Unlike a cluster, grids tend to be loosely coupled in that there usually is no central control. The notion of grid ...

Grid computing hooks up to open standards Analysis: The development of a global system of distributed computing will take no little time and involves many novel concepts.

Grid computing allows a company to share its data-processing workload among its servers, workstations and storage, as long as excess capacity exists on each of these resources. As workload increases ...

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating 'Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. Analyst house ...

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.

Grid computing depends on the software to divide and apportion pieces of a program among several computers. It is cost-effective and can solve problems that can't be approached without an enormous ...