On my hype meter, grid computing receives a rating of 6.5 on a scale of 10. It's not that grid computing is a flaky concept.

Back in 2004, Wired had a piece on the LHC's grid network. Les Robertson, who studied with Peter Higgs (of the boson) and head of the grid, realized distributed computing was the way to go.

President Donald Trump's oversight of an increasingly unreliable U.S. power grid requires swift action, he said this week, but there is no easy fix for one of the grid's most complex and troubled ...