The company is releasing another version of its Grid Engine software to make the program work better on larger networks of computers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Markham, Ont.-based Platform Computing Inc. has released a beta version of its enterprise grid software solution to a financial institution to integrate all of its distributed IT assets, allowing ...

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 ...

In another step toward the commercial acceptance of distributed grid computing, Platform Computing Inc. on Tuesday at the Global Grid Forum in Toronto announced the beta availability of Platform ...

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 ...

In early 2000, Cereon Genomics had a serious situation on its hands: It was running out of computing power. A genomics company based in Cambridge, Mass., Cereon combines genomics research tools with ...

For UPS, is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition. “Using technology to ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...