SAS Institute on Monday is announcing its membership in the Global Grid Forum (GGF). The GGF, whose membership consists mainly of individual researchers, was organized to promote and develop the ...

The full benchmark results have been published in a SAS white paper available at http://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/SASGridDDN.pdf. “DDN and SAS share a ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

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 ...

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 ...