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Grid computing luring mainstream backers
News Is grid computing in your company's future? Grid computing is a powerful concept, its chief appeal being the ability to make sure all of a server's computing power is used. Even though Web services and grid computing aren't yet a reality, there's...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Grid computing to combat global warming
News Researchers claimed on Monday that grid computing may be the answer to managing the increasing number of renewable energy sources that could eventually be integrated into the UK's power network Brunel University and Imperial College London are part...
[January 17, 2005, 17:10]
Grid Computing and SAS
White Papers In many industries significant improvements to the bottom line have been realized through grid computing. Grid computing allows you to link together the processors, storage and/or memory of distributed computers to make more efficient use of all...
[September 11, 2009, 3:09]
Grid computing saves lives, but could do so much more
Leader That's the thinking behind grid computing, more specifically the sort of distributed project exemplified by FightAIDS@Home, which got going on Monday. This is an effective way of using spare resources in what is arguably a more pressing task than...
[November 23, 2005, 14:30]
Grid Computing: The Current State and Future Trends
White Papers The term 'Grid Computing' is relatively new and means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. One of the goals of this paper is to give a clear definition of what Grid Computing is and why it is required.
[September 11, 2009, 3:32]
Grid Computing With Oracle Database 11g
White Papers This paper discusses the evolution of the datacenter toward the adoption of grid computing and details the benefits derived from this development. It considers the implications for database systems and details the requirements of a database for...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Grid Computing Update - Cycle IV
White Papers Grid Computing Update Pilots move to Mainstream. The fourth update to Quocirca's Grid Index shows how initial pilots of Grid computing are now moving towards full implementations. However, large-scale Grid implementations, covering an enterprise's...
[January 12, 2007, 0:00]
Grid computing hooks up to open standards
News The Grid looks very different from standard networked computing. Other important aspects of Grid computing include its expectations of handling terabyte-sized data sets, and larger. With the Grid, the difference between client and server is much...
[March 19, 2002, 16:18]
Grid computing plays games
News Then there's database giant Oracle, which adapted its grid-computing technology to host the high-profile "Sims Online" game, and telecom giant Alcatel. IBM is one of the main backers of Butterfly.net, a growing effort to apply grid supercomputing...
[June 4, 2004, 12:35]
Grid Computing: What Are the Key Components?
White Papers Grid computing is gaining a lot of attention within the IT industry. Although it has been used within the academic and scientific community for some time, standards, enabling technologies, toolkits, and products are becoming available that allow...
[March 3, 2009, 0:56]
Grid computing 'overhyped'
News A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products. Mark Parsons, the commercial director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing...
[May 19, 2005, 17:20]
Grid computing to solve Big Bang queries?
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid, being constructed at Discovering new types of particles can only be done by statistical analysis of the massive amounts of data the experiments will generate — which is where the LHC Computing Grid...
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
Grid Computing With Oracle
White Papers Grid computing is a new IT architecture that produces more resilient and lower cost enterprise information systems. With grid computing, groups of independent, modular hardware and software components can be connected and rejoined on demand to meet...
[August 4, 2005, 6:00]
Grid computing founders form start-up
News The researchers who spawned the idea of grid computing will launch a company on Monday to commercialise what so far has been a very academic software project for sharing computing resources. Marketing big-wigs in the computing industry have seized...
[December 13, 2004, 8:00]
Grid computing to tackle climate change
News IBM is to work with academics from the University of Cape Town to use grid computing to model climate change in Southern Africa. Wakefield said that the practice within grid computing of using unused cycles on people's computer systems would not...
[September 4, 2007, 16:12]
Grid computing faces marketing mayhem
Leader Computer Science 101 Final Paper: In 400 words or fewer, define the following terms while accurately and concisely describing how they differ from one another: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, On-Demand Computing, Data Centre-Virtualisation, and...
[December 13, 2004, 11:40]
Grid computing 'vital to Europe's future'
News The European Commission (EC) has announced that grid computing will be a cornerstone in attempts to improve the coordination of research and development activities across Europe and improve competition with the US and Japan.
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
Grid Computing Now! - Grid Security
White Papers A compute grid is essentially a collection of distributed computing resources, aggregated to act as a unified processing resource or virtual supercomputer. The first phase of grid computing evolution tends to be the creation of intra-grids; two or...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Grid Computing Now! - Grid: Virtualisation
White Papers The whole concept of grid computing is predicated on the idea of virtualisation - and yet one is at Quocirca keep finding that the term means completely different things to different people. And here lies the rub; grid computing is something that...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Grid Computing Now! - Grid and Licensing
White Papers Traditional software licensing mechanisms that worked well in the past have recently begun to emerge as obstacles to the adoption of new utility type computing paradigms such as grid. At the same time software licensing has eclipsed server hardware...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
