IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers. Big Blue announced Wednesday that the new customers will join IBM's ...

IBM last week expanded its industry-specific grid computing offerings, even while it acknowledged that widespread adoption of grid technology won’t accelerate until standards work is complete.

IBM rival Sun Microsystems is also hard at work on distributed computing, through its Grid Engine software, and it too hopes a larger community will back the technology.

IBM’s Distributed Terascale facility, for example, is a grid-computing project designed to allow researchers to perform 13.6 trillion calculations per second, making the series of connected ...

IBM, seeking to push grid computing beyond its scientific and technical roots and into the mainstream of commercial business enterprises, last week announced its grid computing vision and 10 new ...

IBM has expanded its grid computing initiative beyond the academic and research communities, announcing 10 grid options aimed at aerospace, automotive, financial markets, government and life sciences.

At LinuxWorld, IBM plans to introduce a new bundle of hardware, software and services to help move grid computing into the mainstream.

IBM today announced plans to develop grid computing as a way to link its global data centers together to better serve customers in the future.

The IBM project at EPA, being performed jointly with prime contractor Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), includes the Grid Toolbox, a collection of open standards-based Grid software from IBM, Red ...

IBM plans to unwrap a bundle of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco on Monday. The company hopes the bundle will act as a starter pack for ...