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 ...

Breast cancer treatment and research are getting a big boost from a new grid computing system that will link hospitals, doctors and researchers as they seek new ways of fighting the disease. The ...

Adding renewable energy and energy storage capacity brings an added layer of complexity to traditional electrical grid systems. Balancing supply and demand of energy for power systems, even under ...

Thomas Morstyn receives research funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK, Outlook Energy and IONATE. The research this article is based on was ...

Leading participants in the development of geographically distributed “grid” computing projects are bolstering security and other protocols necessary to deliver Web services atop grid networks. Set ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Grid Research Innovation and Development Center (GRID-C) uses the laboratory’s electric grid to prove innovations for smooth ...

The database giant said Wednesday that the performance, availability and scalability it has been touting for its database are perfectly suited to grid computing, in which computational tasks are ...

One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans ...