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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.

  • Potential Sun Grid customer: No thanks

    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.

  • Oracle ships grid software

    Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.

  • Aust data grids to power international research

    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.

  • 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.

  • Australian scientists claim grid computing win

    Australian computer scientists Alexander Barmouta and Rajkumar Buyya have brought grid computing one step closer to commercialsation, releasing a preliminary protoype of their Grid Bank resource accounting infrastructure.

  • Oracle enters the grid

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

  • 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 plots grid computing consortium

    An executive with the database software maker says the company is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing.

  • Scientists complete Grid foundations

    New specifications will make it possible for scientists to share the ever-growing mountains of data generated by research projects.

  • What's in store for 2004?

    It's like that old joke: two IT industry analysts, three opinions. We take a look at what the top technology watchers are predicting will change your IT world in the year to come.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Why HP might be your next utility company

    Although HP's version currently is limited to its SuperDome servers, the company sees a time when all computer resources are connected to a grid, with customers billed on a usage basis.

  • HP to unveil nanotech breakthrough

    Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology, a milestone in the company's goal to build chips based on "molecular grids".

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