Grid Computing Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap.

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 ...

One positive from the grid community has been the push of web services. Web services are like RPCs for the Internet. While this technology is still relatively new, it appears that many websites will ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Grid computing allows a company to share its data-processing workload among its servers, workstations and storage, as long as excess capacity exists on each of these resources. As workload increases ...

Corey Klaasmeyer defines grid computing and contrasts it with cluster computing. This article also leads the reader through a simple Globus Toolkit 4 grid service implementation.

Grid computing, previously limited to academics and start-ups, is now attracting established tech companies which are spreading the concept to mainstream businesss.