Certainly for Grid computing environments — my perception has been that the lion’s share of major deployments out there today are running on Linux. This applies to both research / academic ...

With roots in computer clustering and grid computing, the technology that first sprouted during the ASP era of the late 1990s is now the computing topic du jour. There's understandable reason for ...

Becker is the founder and chief scientist of Linux clustering vendor Scyld Software, a subsidiary of Linux workstation and server vendor Penguin Computing Inc. Privately held Penguin acquired ...

The appeal of grid computing to the scientific community, financial services companies, the pharmaceutical industry and other compute-intensive users is strong and growing, according to those on ...

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 to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world.

Alatum, said HP, is possibly the biggest computing grid in Singapore. University grids typically have a small cluster of eight to 10 CPUs, while Alatum has 300.

A Look at Cluster Computing Architectures A general cluster computing architecture couples and groups different nodes to share resources for performance and availability when running applications, and ...