At first blush, Greg Gianforte would seem to be the ideal candidate for Sun Microsystems' Grid service. But the chief executive of RightNow Technologies isn't interested.
IBM is hoping to recruit developers by offering free access to high-powered grid computing servers over the Internet.
IBM is moving to take the wraps off grid additions to its WebSphere server software that the company says will save customers money on underutilised hardware
IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.
IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality.
A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source software for its newer computers, causing Sun to scramble to cooperate with the project in response.
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.
Social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, according to a study.
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.
High-tech giants are nudging the grid computing into the business world. Is the obscure concept in your company's future?
Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.
The software that sits between the operating system and a PC's hardware hasn't changed much in decades. Now, Phoenix Technologies wants to introduce greater security, usability and copy protection.
Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failedÂÂâ€"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity marketâ€"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?
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