EUMEDGRID is an initiative funded through the European Commission's sixth Framework programme which aims to build the first high performance computing grid extending across the Mediterranean region.

Grid computing – with its promise to organisations that they will able to utilise their own (and external) resources more efficiently to cope with peaks and troughs in demand – is a sufficiently ...

Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Enterprise Grid Alliance was formed six months ago by a group of IT vendors to accelerate the adoption of grid computing technology by corporate users. In addition, the EGA is now developing ...

IT Week: How much demand is there for distributed computing power among enterprises? Songnian Zhou: We have customers ramping up application processing demands very quickly, and they cannot do it with ...

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 ...

For enterprise software engineers that want to cut their teeth on Grid computing development, a new release by Charles River Media, Inc. “Grid Computing for Developers” might be worth taking a look at ...

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 ...