Being middleware, BOINC isn’t nearly as well known as some of the grid computing-based volunteer projects – like SETI@home and Rosetta@home — that exploit it. But the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for ...

The United States power grid is being pushed harder than at any point in decades, and the strain is no longer theoretical. Record demand, a surge of renewable projects, and the rapid electrification ...

Oracle has been one of the loudest voices promoting grid computing, and now it looks like demand for the technology is on the rise. At the company's analyst day last week, CEO Larry Ellison told Wall ...

EMC is acquiring Acxiom's grid-computing software for $30 million and will combine it with its own products for storage, information, and resource management. EMC and Acxiom, which will retain rights ...

For UPS, is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition. “Using technology to ...

The program is expected to be based in part on a current push to get Sun's European solution providers to work with grid computing, said Peter Jeffcock, group marketing manager for Sun's Grid ...

Grid computing, which had already caught the attention of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., is now being targeted by another major hardware vendor: Compaq Computer Corp. The three server rivals this ...

The company's new Grid and Grow bundles, to be unveiled at the LinuxWorld expo, held this week in San Francisco, comes as grid computing is starting to mature and appeal to a rising number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grid and Grow Express is latest IBM effort to make it more attractive for SMBs to do business with the company IBM’s latest round of software aimed at SMBs includes a bundle of hardware, software, and ...