Speaking at a gathering of technology innovators at the recent XChange Tech Innovators conference in San Diego, Smith, the vice president of emerging technology at the world's largest computing ...

Peer-to-peer or grid computing has been around for quite a few years now. Corporate enterprises have shown little interest, but the scientific community has embraced it as a means to enable its ...

N1 is Sun's vision of how widely distributed computing resources, including servers, storage, software and networking, can be virtualized and provisioned as a single system, rather than managed as ...

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The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

Energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are estimated to increase by 1.5 billion tons by the end of 2021 from 2.3 billion tons in 2020. This is the second-largest increase in history and the largest ...

If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively. Depending on who describes it, grid computing has grown from ...