In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

Distributed computing is nothing new. The idea of taking a task too big for one computer and spreading it across many machines has been around since the sixties, especially in research, scientific and ...

Suppose you needed the processing power of several thousand CPUs but didn't have a couple of billion dollars handy to purchase the hardware? It's a common problem at today's IT centers where shrinking ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating ‘Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

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(click thumbnail)"STAR" Storage Configuration (top): More conventional arrangement requires two 16-port switches, one of which is for failover. Thirty-two wired connections to two expensive switches ...

One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans ...

Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap. Is Internet history about to repeat itself? Maybe. Back in the 1980s, the ...