Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane uses by ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. But accessing limited grid resources is not always a simple ...

This turned out to be a pretty nerdy post, but there are nuggets you might be able to use as small talk in the next mosh pit you visit. (Hey, it's worth a try.) The World Community Grid is a network ...

Defining grid computing is like throwing darts at a dragonfly. That’s because there are as many definitions for grid computing as there are people to ask about it. For example, some observers say grid ...

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 ...

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