If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. The company, called Univa and based near Chicago, is building its business on the ...

Big Blue announced Wednesday that the new customers will join IBM’s stable of about 100 companies that have bought grid computing products and services. The new clients include Wall Street giant ...

Cloud computing allows users to share resources, utilize software, and access personal files from any computer that has Internet access. It derives largely from the Unix paradigm of having multiple ...

The program is expected to be based in part on a current push to get Sun's European solution providers to work with grid computing, said Peter Jeffcock, group marketing manager for Sun's Grid ...

Charles Schwab & Co. this week went live with a grid computing system and said it has already improved performance by an order of magnitude on the first investment management application that’s ...

Although grids and clusters may both satisfy high-performance or high-throughput requirements by enabling distributed computing, grids solve the more complicated problem of providing computing ...

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 ...

While parallel processing has been around for years in the scientific community, primarily the financial sector has taken advantage of it to run complex business analysis. However, analytical ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--IBM is ramping up its recruitment efforts with application companies in an effort to make an emerging distributed computing technology, called grid computing, pervasive in corporations ...

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 harness idle workstations Steven ...