The mysteries of dark matter and multiple dimensions could be solved with the help of the world's biggest computer grid.
IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality.
Four Australian universities have teamed up to create and test a "data grid", designed to allow global access to the terabytes of data generated by modern large-scale scientific research.
SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.
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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.
SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.
commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?
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 software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.
The grace of Leopard's interface enhancements makes productivity more pleasurable with a Mac, as more than 300 functional and fun features top off this update.
German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.
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