One notable example is the Access Grid, an Argonne-developed system-based, like so much else in grid computing, on Globus-that supports large-scale, multisite meetings over the Internet, as well ...

IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality. "Grid" technology, which distributes computing jobs and databases across numerous ...

It is the popularity of these examples and the initial success of grid computing in the research environment that has led to increased interest in grid technology from industries such as financial ...

TechRepublic's Beth Blakely explains how Web services can harness grid computing as a service platform, making otherwise unused computing resources commercially available on a prioritized basis.

For example, Platform Computing ‘s distributed computing software was used to link 70,000 computers via the ‘Net to map, classify and compare more than 500,000 proteins (the Decrypthon Project).

For enterprise software engineers that want to cut their teeth on Grid computing development, a new release by Charles River Media, Inc. “Grid Computing for Developers” might be worth taking a ...

For example, some observers say grid computing is just a fancy new name for the well-established concept of distributed computing.

For example, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project was the focus of a recent international grid-testing exercise that spanned the LHC Computing Grid and the Open Science Grid.

More hype than reality, grid computing is at this point little more than a marketing message from the major vendors looking to sell server management software. Of the IT managers Nucleus ...

Only one in five IT managers surveyed by analyst firm IDC understood grid computing with most respondents failing to see its value as a technology alternative that has any relevance in the real ...