Adobe Systems has signed a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its video effects software to tap into spare computing power on a network. Under a licensing agreement announced on Monday, ...

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 ...

IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers. Big Blue announced Wednesday that the new customers will join IBM's ...

The program is expected to be based in part on a current push to get Sun's European solution providers to work with grid computing, said Peter Jeffcock, group marketing manager for Sun's Grid ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Schwab & Co. this week went live with a grid computing system and said it has already improved performance by an order of magnitude on the first investment management application that’s ...

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 ...

In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.

Grid computing may still sound fringe to buttoned-down comptrollers looking over technology budgets at small Midwestern thrifts. They've got a point-grids came into being out of academic research labs ...