The company is releasing another version of its Grid Engine software to make the program work better on larger networks of computers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Software that will set up a network built from users’ hard drives and bandwidth has been quietly bundled into the Kazaa file-sharing program owned by Australian holding company Sharman Networks Ltd.

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 ...

IBM has unveiled services for grid and autonomic computing that will, ideally, let large institutions run their most complex applications more efficiently. The services are designed to let ...

The United States power grid is being pushed harder than at any point in decades, and the strain is no longer theoretical.

For UPS, is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition. “Using technology to ...

While parallel processing has been around for years in the scientific community, primarily the financial sector has taken advantage of it to run complex business analysis. However, analytical ...