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  • Sun Grid to launch in US this week

    Sun Microsystems plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, company president Jonathan Schwartz said.

  • Sun funds Seti@home

    Sun Microsystems is to fund the next version of Seti@home, the distributed computing project that is looking for intelligent alien life.

  • Apple considers modest move into clusters

    Though Apple doesn't fancy itself a giant of high-performance computing, the company says it's making some headway in regard to both supercomputers and smaller-scale clusters.

  • Office politics grind on grid computing

    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.

  • 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.

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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.

  • Office politics grind on grid computing

    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.

  • 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?

  • Grid computing luring mainstream backers

    High-tech giants are nudging the grid computing into the business world. Is the obscure concept in your company's future?

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Reviews (3)

  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

  • HP mixes business with grids

    Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.

  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

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