To understand the basic and complex differences between cloud and grid computing, we really need to explain both technologies. Here’s how they are defined. Cloud computing ...

Sunday Times News: Grid computing is a parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are shared across a network, and all machines function as one large superc ...

Grid computing is also called "peer-to-peer computing" and "distributed computing," the latter term first coined in the 1970s, which had no relationship to this concept. See distributed processing ...

New technology and commodity hardware widen grids' reach, but perception barriers remain.

If I said, “tell me everything you know about grid computing in 10 seconds…” you’d almost certainly mention IBM, maybe Oracle and Sun, you’d probably say “clusters” and if you’re a ...

The Facts . Critics of grid computing point out that interenterprise grids face considerable security hurdles (see “Power Pool,” Emerging Technology, April 1, 2002).

Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped". Roland Slee, Oracle Asia Pacific's senior ...

We have developed ‘Grid-Allegro’, a Grid aware implementation of the Allegro software, by which several thousands of genotype simulations can be performed in parallel in short time.