In the past several years, scientific and information technology publications have either encouraged or debated the use of grid computing. Major hardware and software companies have tried to take ...

As we get more and more used to parallel processing and multi-core architectures I’m noticing an encroaching tide of technology threads that are encouraging us to consider High Performance Computing ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Two high-profile movements to harness the power of the global network of computers will start pooling their resources next week as academia's "grid" computing initiative meets the Web services trend ...

Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on.

A few months ago (when he was still at MCI), we asked Vint Cerf a few network-specific questions about Grid. Here’s what he had to say: 1. A recent Nemertes study said that 62% of organizations are ...

Microsoft has released details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls. Microsoft created SecPAL, or ...

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, ...

Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap. Is Internet history about to repeat itself? Maybe. Back in the 1980s, the ...