To deal with the computing demands of the LHC experiments, scientists have created the world's largest, most international distributed-computing system. Developers of this intricate and innovative ...

Grid computing could be described as a large combine of computers noodling on a great problem. The computer grid is here likened to the electric power grid that routes power around the nation as needs ...

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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 ...

WHEN is a grid not a grid? It depends whom you ask. According to many in the computer industry, grid computing—which roughly means the harnessing of the collective processing power of many computers ...

In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.

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 ...

NASA and Boeing launch grid systems to share resources, contain costs. Piyush Mehrotra isn’t exaggerating when he says the data collected and maintained by his organization’s computing systems spans ...

Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on.