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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

Microsoft has released details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls. Microsoft created SecPAL, or ...

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 combination of edge computing and 5G networks is enabling utilities to manage data more effectively and shrink decision-making and response times, while also reducing the burden on centralized ...