In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.

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 ...

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Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap. Is Internet history about to repeat itself? Maybe. Back in the 1980s, the ...

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 ...

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively. Depending on who describes it, grid computing has grown from ...

Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on.

More hype than reality, grid computing is at this point little more than a marketing message from the major vendors looking to sell server management software. Of the IT managers Nucleus interviewed, ...