Being middleware, BOINC isn’t nearly as well known as some of the grid computing-based volunteer projects – like SETI@home and Rosetta@home — that exploit it. But the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for ...

The program is expected to be based in part on a current push to get Sun's European solution providers to work with grid computing, said Peter Jeffcock, group marketing manager for Sun's Grid ...

Grid computing, which had already caught the attention of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., is now being targeted by another major hardware vendor: Compaq Computer Corp. The three server rivals this ...

Speaking to a crowded keynote audience at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Phillips outlined what grid computing is and why Oracle is investing its entire software strategy in providing an ...

Oracle aims to pick up the tempo on its grid computing beat this week by unveiling the latest version of its flagship database, an iteration the company believes is primed to enable grids for ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

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 ...

Entropia, a company whose software enables companies to harness the unused computing power of their Windows PCs to conquer large computational problems, has announced it will adopt a standard to allow ...

Claiming grid technology continues to expand outside its traditional scientific and research markets, IBM on Friday is announcing that several grid-based commercial projects built on IBM platforms ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...