Charles Schwab & Co. this week went live with a grid computing system and said it has already improved performance by an order of magnitude on the first investment management application that’s ...

The Enterprise Grid Alliance was formed six months ago by a group of IT vendors to accelerate the adoption of grid computing technology by corporate users. In addition, the EGA is now developing ...

Database-software maker Oracle is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing, an Oracle executive said Wednesday. Addressing the crowd ...

For UPS, is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition. “Using technology to ...

IBM increased the number of industry-specific grid computing products in its roster Monday, bringing custom grid-computing applications and services to the petroleum, agricultural chemicals, ...

Licensing models and grid computing are about to collide. Don’t take my word for it, though. Read what Larry Ellison said to me when I interviewed him last month. “You will see an alternate pricing ...

The European Union has decided to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to the latest computing trends--it's putting $63.4 million into grids. The grid handout will be put into 12 separate ...

The demise of a few ants doesn't prevent the colony from completing its task; similarly, a handful of disabled computers shouldn't deter a network from its mission. "If the ants die, you can just ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

Given that Grid has such profound implications for the future of distributed computing, it has been somewhat of a surprise that the networking vendors and telco service providers have not yet been ...