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 ...

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 ...

Having jumped into the world of Linux with a $1 billion commitment this year, IBM is now about to make a foray into what it thinks will be the next big direction in IT: grid computing. The idea, to ...

Picture this scenario: At 2:37 a.m. during a storm, lightning strikes a distribution feeder line in rural Wisconsin. A massive power surge races through the distribution network. Instead of triggering ...

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 ...