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.

It is the popularity of these examples and the initial success of grid computing in the research environment that has led to increased interest in grid technology from industries such as financial ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...