Sun claims that more than 5,000 grids using its Grid Engine software have been installed, 40 per cent of them in the past seven months. Grid Engine Enterprise Edition version 5.3 lets administrators establish rules that control how computing jobs...
Developers are also keen to string together several cheaper database servers in a grid configuration as a cheaper alternative to pricier high-end database servers. Twelve per cent of companies in the Evans Data survey said they have deployed or...
Brunel University and Imperial College London are part of the GridCC organisation which is investigating how distributed computing can be used to create a real-time computing grid to coordinate inexpensive, reliable, cheap and sustainable energy...
The consortium will promote grid standardisation efforts, teach customers about grids and hear what they'd like added, and fund work to bolster the Globus Toolkit, Nawrocki said. Grids today are chiefly used for high-performance computing tasks...
McNealy claims companies should look to use grids of virtual computers for their processing needs and hosted applications instead of the current situation where businesses spend millions on bespoke technology.
The mysteries of dark matter, multiple dimensions and even the conditions following the Big Bang could be solved with the help of the world's biggest computer grid. All the grid stuff is done in open source, that's taken for granted.