In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

Distributed computing is nothing new. The idea of taking a task too big for one computer and spreading it across many machines has been around since the sixties, especially in research, scientific and ...

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NASA and Boeing launch grid systems to share resources, contain costs. Piyush Mehrotra isn’t exaggerating when he says the data collected and maintained by his organization’s computing systems spans ...

If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

(1) May refer to a cloud computing service that provides a complete server infrastructure but not applications. See cloud computing. (2) A parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Grid computing is a set of old ideas with new technology ...