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 ...

Remote working has always been there; but in the aftermath of the pandemic, it has largely supplanted the traditional in-office work. Since employees are working from different corners of the world, ...

According to Gartner, if the concept of grid computing meets widespread acceptance, it could forever alter the role of service providers. In an interview with TechRepublic, Bernhard Borges, managing ...

The electric power grid is undergoing an unprecedented transformation due to the changing electric generation and load landscape, moving from large-scale solutions to customer-based decentralized and ...

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 ...

In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardized computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...

The University of Florida has bought a lower-end IBM z800 mainframe along with 32 Intel servers to use in grid computing. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

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 ...

A global grid of computers could one day be used to protect the world against disease pandemics and natural disasters. It's a vision that has been set out by "Big Bang" lab Cern, where a grid of more ...