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.

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 ...

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 computing closely follows Web services in Gartner's 2002 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, which provides a look at the progression of technologies (see Figure 1).

Grid computing to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Yet the commercialisation of the technology comes at a price. Grid computing has become the latest term in the IT lexicon to be hijacked by sales and marketing.

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 ...