Sun Microsystems plans to unveil a program in the first half of 2003 aimed at getting its U.S. solution providers involved in grid computing.

Microsoft will have its hands full with its Bigtop grid computing as it challenges technologies with years of history and powerful supporters.

The company is releasing another version of its Grid Engine software to make the program work better on larger networks of computers.

With his corporate communications specialist cringing off stage, Rod Smith of IBM said what many in the IT business have come to suspect—that grid computing is another one of the industry's ...

Office politics and other social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, a study says.

The program, to begin next year, aims to establish advanced grid computing infrastructure for all branches of science.

Grid computing's biggest stumbling block to adoption is education, said researcher Quocirca. The problem is not many understand the true value of this technology.

Scientists used grid computing to connect multiple workstations, which allowed them to work on complicated math problems and software compilations, utilizing idle CPUs to reduce processing times.

Oracle and its allies say grid computing is different from preceding technologies because it will allow business programs, such as those dealing with payroll and order processing, to share ...

Implementation To implement the Grid-Allegro, two programs written in Perl were developed. Gridallegrosteep1.pl runs locally in the master node and its task is to prepare the input files that will ...