Grid Computing Key players Andrew Chien Entropia Peer-to-Peer Working Group Andrew Grimshaw Avaki; U. Virginia Commercial grid software Miron Livny U. Wisconsin, Madison Open-source system to ...

Charles Schwab's new Linux-based grid computing system, developed with help from IBM, includes only 12 servers now. But starting next year, the discount brokerage plans to tap into thousands of ...

Microsoft will have its hands full with its Bigtop grid computing as it challenges technologies with years of history and powerful supporters.

Itron's Nick Tumilowicz asserts a need for an integrated approach to grid management that processes and acts on real-time data at the edge.

Grid computing is a hardware and software infrastructure that clusters and integrates high-end computers, networks, databases and scientific instruments from multiple sources to form a virtual ...

The technology, in forms such as IBM's Grid Computing Initiative or Sun Microsystems' Grid Engine Project, would allow companies to optimize their use of computing power from machines hooked to a ...

What now drives grid computing, however, is the cost-push of a commodity technology, rather than the demand-pull of problems worth solving at almost any price.

Grid Technology Partners, a newly hatched research firm in San Jose, Calif., claims that grid computing is a "paradigm shift that will provide the next big boost in corporate productivity since ...

So grid computing will play into our vision of computing as a utility.” While companies like IBM would build the large-scale grids, Turek says that many users will want to set up grids of their own.