Remote working has always been there; but in the aftermath of the pandemic, it has largely supplanted the traditional in-office work. Since employees are working from different corners of the world, ...

Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

Grid computing has been on the horizon for a long time. Some prognosticators say it’s the next big thing. But it’s SO big, it’s daunting for many. This collection looks at the basics of grid as it ...

According to Gartner, if the concept of grid computing meets widespread acceptance, it could forever alter the role of service providers. In an interview with TechRepublic, Bernhard Borges, managing ...

Grid computing – with its promise to organisations that they will able to utilise their own (and external) resources more efficiently to cope with peaks and troughs in demand – is a sufficiently ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Five years ago it was a laboratory wonder, a new-fangled way of data processing that only boffins and rocket ...

Database-software maker Oracle is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing, an Oracle executive said Wednesday. Addressing the crowd ...

In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardized computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...