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 ...

Data replication is a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, crucial for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid data access in both cloud and grid environments. Contemporary ...

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 ...

Energy costs must really be getting to Google. In addition to its recently announced forays into geothermal energy and floating data centers, it’s also partnering with General Electric Co. to work on ...

One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans ...

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 ...