One notable example is the Access Grid, an Argonne-developed system-based, like so much else in grid computing, on Globus-that supports large-scale, multisite meetings over the Internet, as well ...

Microsoft will have its hands full with its Bigtop grid computing as it challenges technologies with years of history and powerful supporters.

IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality. "Grid" technology, which distributes computing jobs and databases across numerous ...

TechRepublic's Beth Blakely explains how Web services can harness grid computing as a service platform, making otherwise unused computing resources commercially available on a prioritized basis.

For enterprise software engineers that want to cut their teeth on Grid computing development, a new release by Charles River Media, Inc. “Grid Computing for Developers” might be worth taking a ...

For example, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project was the focus of a recent international grid-testing exercise that spanned the LHC Computing Grid and the Open Science Grid.

In the long-term grid vision, users will be able to harness grid-computing power even outside their firewalls. Businesses will plug into the grid and tap that power?and pay for it?only as needed ...

For example, Platform Computing ‘s distributed computing software was used to link 70,000 computers via the ‘Net to map, classify and compare more than 500,000 proteins (the Decrypthon Project).

More hype than reality, grid computing is at this point little more than a marketing message from the major vendors looking to sell server management software. Of the IT managers Nucleus ...

Only one in five IT managers surveyed by analyst firm IDC understood grid computing with most respondents failing to see its value as a technology alternative that has any relevance in the real ...