Cloud computing and Grid computing are the two words that end up confusing many people as they are similar in theory. Cloud computing and Grid computing involves a massive computer network ...

Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane uses by ...

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 ...

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating ‘Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

Remote working has always been there; but in the aftermath of the pandemic, it has largely supplanted the traditional in-office work. Since employees are working from different corners of the world, ...

Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardized computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...

Grid computing has been on the horizon for a long time. Some prognosticators say it’s the next big thing. But it’s SO big, it’s daunting for many. This collection looks at the basics of grid as it ...

David Berlind did this excellent interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch, who is one of the pioneers of grid technology,anddispels some of the myths of grid computing. In the past, I've tried to dispel some ...

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 ...