Cathcart described the IBM and Microsoft strategies as radically different, but he said IBM was well positioned to take a market lead with its multi-program platform offering. IBM said it plans to gradually grid-enable its entire product portfolio.
Originally, grids generally were a federation of servers - often higher-end machines or supercomputers - that collectively tackle computing problems. The partners are labelling the project the Smallpox Research Grid, illustrating the gradual...
Butterfly uses a "grid computing" approach, in which multiple servers work together as a virtual supercomputer, seamlessly shifting processing tasks among individual machines. IBM, which provides servers, physical space and software for the...
The program, called the Secure N1 Grid, will cost $1 per processor per hour to use, President Jonathan Schwarz is expected to announce at a New York event designed to curry favour among Wall Street customers.
Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. Analyst house Quocirca's latest Insight report into grid computing...
Fewer than one in 10 businesses is planning to adopt grid computing because of concerns about cost, complexity and security, according to a survey of IT managers. Out of the 100 IT managers quizzed, 88 per cent said their board of directors don't...