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

When your machine is idle, the program wakes up and thinks for a while, then squirts partial results back to Grid Headquarters, where they are combined with results from nearly 1 million other ...

The company is releasing another version of its Grid Engine software to make the program work better on larger networks of computers.

New program will give ISVs greater access to IBM hardware for developing, testing apps IBM Corp. on Thursday will roll out a new program based on grid computing technology that will give ...

Like grid computing, the Web services idea revolves around future software applications that are created on the fly out of programs and data that live on the Internet, not the user’s machine.

Oracle and its allies say grid computing is different from preceding technologies because it will allow business programs, such as those dealing with payroll and order processing, to share ...

Sun Microsystems plans to unveil a program in the first half of 2003 aimed at getting its U.S. solution providers involved in grid computing.

Grid computing's biggest stumbling block to adoption is education, said researcher Quocirca. The problem is not many understand the true value of this technology.

Scientists used grid computing to connect multiple workstations, which allowed them to work on complicated math problems and software compilations, utilizing idle CPUs to reduce processing times.