Although grids and clusters may both satisfy high-performance or high-throughput requirements by enabling distributed computing, grids solve the more complicated problem of providing computing ...

Grid computing may still sound fringe to buttoned-down comptrollers looking over technology budgets at small Midwestern thrifts. They've got a point-grids came into being out of academic research labs ...

Grid computing to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world. Stephen Shankland ...

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 ...

Enterprises are constantly looking for ways to reduce their IT expenses, and hardware purchases represent a significant portion of those costs. “Companies want to avoid buying faster systems year ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Grid computing appears to have sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at this week's OracleWorld conference, inspiring both breathless exuberance and sober ...

A couple of years ago Citigroup?s Capital Markets division faced a problem that most large trading enterprises were also confronting: an ever-increasing need for processing power to handle the risk ...

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 ...