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.

Certainly for Grid computing environments — my perception has been that the lion’s share of major deployments out there today are running on Linux. This applies to both research / academic ...

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Grid computing is a hardware and software infrastructure that clusters and integrates high-end computers, networks, databases and scientific instruments from multiple sources to form a virtual ...

Scyld, which is a subsidiary of Penguin Computing, develops and sells a cluster operating system called the Scyld Beowulf Series 29 Linux Clustering Software. Better known as Scyld Beowulf, the ...

So grid computing will play into our vision of computing as a utility.” While companies like IBM would build the large-scale grids, Turek says that many users will want to set up grids of their own.

Entire grid environments are now available from several of Platform Computing's hardware partners that fit in a single, small enclosure and can be purchased for well below $50,000.

Ways to leverage grid computing in startup business. Alongside being beneficial to other industries, grid computing can help a business grow in several ways. Without further ado, let’s explore them.

People don’t talk much about grid computing much these days anymore, but most application teams th at require high performance from their infrastructure are actually addicted to grid computing ...

Advanced Cluster Systems (ACS) hopes to bring grid computing into the business mainstream with its new Math Grid Toolkit, a system for adapting Wolfram Research’s gridMathematica Workgroup Clusters.

IEEE, February 2002; $190. This collection of 85 papers from the May 2001 symposium presents developments in cluster and grid computing that enable applications to share resources and content ...