Although grid computing emerged in the 1990s, it has begun to emerge in the commercial world because the tools and applications are only now becoming available.

Once grid computing becomes widespread, companies will be able to pay for supercomputing power by the hour rather than investing in highly expensive mainframes that sit idle much of the time.

The key to an efficient grid computing environment is to set things up so that all the computing capability within a company can be treated as a single resource - one that can be allocated when ...

The appeal of grid computing to the scientific community, financial services companies, the pharmaceutical industry and other compute-intensive users is strong and growing, according to those on ...

Datawars: Grid Computing Democratizes Proteomics Erica P. Johnson The young field of proteomics has quickly risen to match physics and meteorology in its huge appetite for computational capacity.

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has tested quantum computing for optimizing the placement of large-scale batteries into the grid for cost, voltage control, and reliability. Accurately modeling ...

Vizimax Inc., a leading provider of innovative solutions for electric power systems today announced that it has been acquired by Power Grid Components ("PGC"), a Blackstone portfolio company ...

Central to the IT evolution is the idea of virtualization and the grid ? taking standard, modular components and getting them to work together as one computer, resulting in greater flexibility and ...

The system is the regions biggest grid computing system and places the UAE University in the Top 500 list of high performance computing grids worldwide. The super grid is deployed in service of the ...

Key Takeaways: Mobile Computing’s presence in Buenos Aires strengthens Grid Dynamics’ follow-the-sun delivery model to better serve its enterprise clients. The acquisition expands Grid ...