News A Cluster by Any Other Name Is Not a Grid By John K. Waters October 10, 2005 Have you noticed how lately, when the conversation turns to distributed computing, grid and cluster are used as ...

Grid computing Grid systems are designed for collaborative sharing of resources. It can also be thought of as distributed and large-scale cluster computing.

Corey Klaasmeyer defines grid computing and contrasts it with cluster computing. This article also leads the reader through a simple Globus Toolkit 4 grid service implementation.

A grid is a wide-area network of computers used to process parts of the same problem. Unlike a cluster, grids tend to be loosely coupled in that there usually is no central control. The notion of grid ...

Grid computing is often confused with cluster computing; however, a key difference is that a cluster is a single set of nodes sitting in one location, whereas a Grid is composed of many clusters ...

Certainly for Grid computing environments — my perception has been that the lion’s share of major deployments out there today are running on Linux.

David Berlind did this excellent interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch, who is one of the pioneers of grid technology,anddispels some of the myths of grid computing. In the past, I've tried to dispel ...

To take that step, a system should ideally function with a minimal amount of centralized administration, unlike a cluster or a server farm, where single-point control is the norm; a grid must use ...

Vendors define grid computing as whatever best fits their products. More discipline is needed to stop the damage ...