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    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • Itanium gets supercomputing software

    Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

  • IBM pumps millions into 'computer farms'

    IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality.

  • Oracle enters the grid

    commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?

  • Sun offers business-friendly grid software

    Sun Microsystems has upgraded its top-end "grid" software, a product that lets teams of computers collectively tackle calculation problems, making it more suitable for businesses that need strict control of their computing resources.

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  • Microsoft gets on the grid

    Looking to blunt the success of Linux in high-performance computing, Microsoft is ramping up its commitment to create a "Cluster Compute" version of Windows that better fits data-intensive computing grids.

  • Grids over the enterprise WAN

    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • Oracle enters the grid

    commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?

  • Sun offers business-friendly grid software

    Sun Microsystems has upgraded its top-end "grid" software, a product that lets teams of computers collectively tackle calculation problems, making it more suitable for businesses that need strict control of their computing resources.

  • Open-source database gaining favour

    Big companies are warming up to open-source database software as an alternative to Microsoft products, according to a new study.

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