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 ...

This is the year that grid computing will move with a bang into mainstream corporate America, say analysts at firms such as The 451 Group. Businesses in biotech, the sciences and financial services ...

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 ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

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 ...

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively. Depending on who describes it, grid computing has grown from ...

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The European Union has decided to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to the latest computing trends--it's putting $63.4 million into grids. The grid handout will be put into 12 separate ...