The partners are labelling the project the Smallpox Research Grid, illustrating the gradual broadening of the term 'grid'. Grid' is now used to describe a range of systems, from loosely connected groups of thousands or millions of PCs to a...
We're trying to solve the whole problem of complexity. Its initial autonomic software toolkits use existing standards, including the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), which is a set of standards to build applications that can distribute...
Grid computing techniques have been used to solve mathematical challenges, perform drug research and to work on other tasks. Oracle announced on Wednesday that it is joining a major European research project aimed at boosting grid computing, a...
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...