Despite its shining promise for establishing elegant, integrated, and cost-effective distributed environments, grid computing has yet to win over skeptical enterprise IT executives and reach ...

Find grid news, events, activities, tools and systems, plus information on computational economy, portals, programming environments, applications, test beds and more here. A community-initiated forum ...

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 ...

Though still in its early days, grid computing looks to have a promising future -- if vendors can continue to educate IT departments about its benefits. To date, few European businesses have ...

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 ...

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, ...

Most companies have scores of servers and desktop systems that sit idle much of the time. What a waste! Why not put those unoccupied processors to use on some of your biggest computing problems? The ...

ABSTRACT: The Smart Grid has three main characteristics, which are to some degree antagonistic. These characteristics are: provision of good power quality, energy cost reduction and improvement in the ...