Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices have unveiled a grid applications showcase in Singapore in a bid to drive regional adoption of the technology. The Business Grid technology showcase ...

For UPS, is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition. “Using technology to ...

Database-software maker Oracle is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing, an Oracle executive said Wednesday. Addressing the crowd ...

Charles Schwab & Co. this week went live with a grid computing system and said it has already improved performance by an order of magnitude on the first investment management application that’s ...

Organizations are increasingly turning to clustered low-cost Intel architecture (IA) systems and open source software like Linux to lower their hardware and software acquisition costs, enhance overall ...

Applications so far include satellite image mosaicking to monitor changing global chlorophyll concentrations on a monthly basis and tracking iceberg movement in polar regions. ESA's Internal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mysterious grid-computing technology developer Grid-X landed an additional $800,000 in funding to continue the development of its 100-gigabit Ethernet offload engine for cluster computing. The funding ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

IBM increased the number of industry-specific grid computing products in its roster Monday, bringing custom grid-computing applications and services to the petroleum, agricultural chemicals, ...