Grid computing for the masses Date: February 15, 2010 Source: ICT Results Summary: Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule ...

Microsoft will have its hands full with its Bigtop grid computing as it challenges technologies with years of history and powerful supporters.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

What now drives grid computing, however, is the cost-push of a commodity technology, rather than the demand-pull of problems worth solving at almost any price.

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 ...

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 ...