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 ...

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 ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Corinex Communications Corp. has launched its next-generation advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system. The new system is the first commercially viable BPL system based on the ITU standard G.hn ...

Leading participants in the development of geographically distributed “grid” computing projects are bolstering security and other protocols necessary to deliver Web services atop grid networks. Set ...

The British Broadcasting Corp. is working on a grid computing project that will replace an aging content distribution network with an IP network. The media company expects the new system to increase ...

The electric power grid is undergoing unprecedented change. This change is due to decarbonization efforts, increased reliance on renewable and variable generation resources, the integration of ...

Andrew Chien Entropia Peer-to-Peer Working Group Andrew Grimshaw Avaki; U. Virginia Commercial grid software Miron Livny U. Wisconsin, Madison Open-source system to harness idle workstations Steven ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corinex Communications Corp., a world leader in broadband-power line (“BPL”) technology, announced today the launch of its next-generation advanced ...

(1) May refer to a cloud computing service that provides a complete server infrastructure but not applications. See cloud computing. (2) A parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are ...