Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Five years ago it was a laboratory wonder, a new-fangled way of data processing that only boffins and rocket ...

Picture this scenario: At 2:37 a.m. during a storm, lightning strikes a distribution feeder line in rural Wisconsin. A massive power surge races through the distribution network. Instead of triggering ...

NEC Corporation is to provide Mazda Motor Corp. with an experimental grid computing system that will undergo testing in 2005, the companies said today. If the tests are successful, NEC hopes to become ...

Grid computing – with its promise to organisations that they will able to utilise their own (and external) resources more efficiently to cope with peaks and troughs in demand – is a sufficiently ...

Although grids and clusters may both satisfy high-performance or high-throughput requirements by enabling distributed computing, grids solve the more complicated problem of providing computing ...

Dubai, March 19, 2008 (WAM): Sun Microsystems has deployed one of the most advanced super grid computers in the world at the UAE University. The system is the regions biggest grid computing system and ...

Mazda plans to be one of the first businesses to commercially use grid computing to run its corporate systems. The car manufacturer is working with NEC Corporation to test the system, so that it can ...

The European Union is providing Eur52m funding to turn 12 grid technology research projects into commercially-available systems for use by industry. The projects involve universities, researchers and ...

Sun puts University on the Top 500 List of High Performance Computing Grids worldwide Dubai, UAE, March 19, 2008: Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has deployed one of the most advanced super grid ...