Artificial intelligence has ignited the most aggressive physical-infrastructure buildout in modern history. Behind the ...

After Internet2, “grids” may be the next big thing in high-performance computing. A grid is a network of computational research centers whose supercomputer clusters, databases, and specialized ...

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating ‘Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardized computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...

This may seem like an obvious distinction, but a lot of coverage seems to gloss over the distinction between two aspects of support for grid or cloud computing: Making software run at all on many ...

People don’t talk much about grid computing much these days anymore, but most application teams th at require high performance from their infrastructure are actually addicted to grid computing -- ...

In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

Distributed computing is nothing new. The idea of taking a task too big for one computer and spreading it across many machines has been around since the sixties, especially in research, scientific and ...

Derivatives can be a magic wand for money managers. Used properly, these complex financial contracts help maintain profits by keeping a handle on risk. But pricing them is the key. For derivative ...

The concept of grid computing has been a hot topic for some time, and as the year has unfolded the future application of grids is becoming more clear. Sandial Systems’ Director of Technical Marketing ...