A "grid" technology project at IBM will allow companies to dip into a much larger pool of computing capacity as they need it. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Apple Computer set its sights even more squarely on supercomputing and distributed grid computing this week with the preview and beta release of its Xgrid technology designed for scientists and their ...

So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. (See Ars for snark) But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth ...

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 ...

Peer-to-peer or grid computing has been around for quite a few years now. Corporate enterprises have shown little interest, but the scientific community has embraced it as a means to enable its ...

HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE AI Grid, an end-to-end solution built on the NVIDIA reference architecture to securely connect AI factories and distributed inference clusters across regional ...

Distributed computing is nothing new. The idea of taking a task too big for one computer and spreading it across many machines has been around since the sixties, especially in research, scientific and ...

The demise of a few ants doesn't prevent the colony from completing its task; similarly, a handful of disabled computers shouldn't deter a network from its mission. "If the ants die, you can just ...

In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.