In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

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 ...

NASA and Boeing launch grid systems to share resources, contain costs. Piyush Mehrotra isn’t exaggerating when he says the data collected and maintained by his organization’s computing systems spans ...

(1) May refer to a cloud computing service that provides a complete server infrastructure but not applications. See cloud computing. (2) A parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane uses by ...

Find grid news, events, activities, tools and systems, plus information on computational economy, portals, programming environments, applications, test beds and more here. A community-initiated forum ...