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Fast Company
May 2010
Chuck Salter |
How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research.   |
Chemistry World
February 2011 |
Idle cures Taking a coffee break could help find cures for cancer or Aids. Katrina Megget looks at the future of research that harnesses the computing power of the World Community Grid |
Wall Street & Technology
February 12, 2004
Jim Middlemiss |
Gearing up for Grid Although mass adoption is several years away, many financial institutions are reaping the benefits of grid computing. |
Bio-IT World
March 2006
Mike May |
The Evolving Grid Computing System at J&J Johnson & Johnson is planning to double the size of its grid computing network and the number of applications that run on it by the end of this year, according to company executives. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
The Biggest Grid Yet The World Community Grid seeks to link 10 million or more volunteer computers together through freely downloadable peer-to-peer networking software. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Grid Computing Chokes on License Regs Analyst for The 451 Group says the current software licensing models will stymie the adoption of grid computing. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2004
Paul Shread |
IBM Launches Public Grid Computing Project IBM hopes to give a boost to large-scale public computing projects - and its own commercial grid vision - with the launch of the new 'World Community Grid.' |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Peter Krass |
Grid Computing The same technology being used to search of life in outer space could soon help your company save serious time and money. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 19, 2007
Penny Crosman |
Citigroup Moves to a Large-Scale Grid for High-Performance Computing The financial giant is in the middle of a major shift in its approach to high-performance computing, moving from clustered servers to a large-scale grid. |
Wall Street & Technology
June 22, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
What's So Great About Grid? You wouldn't allow your employees to remain idle 70 percent of the time. And you shouldn't stand for it with your lazy computers, either. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2010
Andy Patrizio |
IBM and Idle PCs Help Find Anti-Cancer Drugs Distributed computing can break up a massive task into manageable chunks in certain situations. Is it right for your company? |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Power Pool Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the grid... |
CIO
May 15, 2004
Christopher Lindquist |
True Grid Long the domain of scientists and engineers, grid computing is finally going mainstream. CIOs need to examine their applications to see if their businesses can benefit from grid's power and economies. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 6, 2006
Leslie Kramer |
Powering Up the Grid Recently, many financial services firms have begun looking into grid computing. By taking advantage of unused CPU capacity, IT departments can increase transaction speed, improve computing agility and reduce costs. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Big Blue Turns Green with Grid Computing Deal IBM inks a grid computing deal with the EPA, and also adds to its list of contracts with companies in Asia. |
InternetNews
September 12, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Vendors Gird for Grid Forum IBM and Sun show off new grid computing accomplishments as the grid community jockeys for standardization. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
Kaufman et al. |
Forum: Grid computing made simple Grid computing enables the use and pooling of computer and data resources to solve complex mathematical problems. The technique is the latest development in an evolution that earlier brought forth such advances as distributed computing, the Worldwide Web, and collaborative computing. |
InternetNews
August 8, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM Grows The Grid The company's Grid and Grow is intended to help enterprises get going on distributed computing at an entry-level price. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Big Blue Grids Cleveland IBM is using grid computing to help the city get the most out of its resources. |
InternetNews
February 15, 2005
Paul Shread |
Digipede Does Windows Digipede launches a commercial distributed computing solution for Microsoft .NET... IBM introduces Accelerated Design Services for Grid Computing... United Devices Unveils Capacity Management and Unified Job Scheduling... |
InternetNews
December 12, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Ivy Leaguers Tap Into Sun's Grid Sun Microsystems gives Princeton University 100,000 hours on the Sun Grid Compute Utility to conduct astrophysical tests. |
Wall Street & Technology
May 15, 2006
Paul Allen |
Banks Take Their Places on the Grid As new alternative investment products are added to the mix, and portfolio managers and risk managers strive to get an accurate view of a fund's value and associated risk, systems are being stretched to the limit of their computing power. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 22, 2005
Maria Wakem |
Spending On Grid Technology To Rise There will be significant growth in the grid market over the next five years, according to a new report. |
InternetNews
January 5, 2006
Clint Boulton |
EMC Goes Grid For $30M EMC purchased grid software from Acxiom Corporation for $30 million as part of a technology and distribution partnership. |
Bank Technology News
October 2003
Karen Krebsbach |
Getting on the grid Have financial services firms captured the Holy Grail of technology? That's what some observers say as firms implement grid computing -- an architecture that helps harness all the computer power across an enterprise. For Schwab's David Dibble, it's been a long time coming. Too long. |
InternetNews
January 2, 2007
Paul Shread |
Grid, Virtualization Get Closer Grid computing could become inseparable from virtualization and service-oriented architectures, according to 451 Group analysts. |
InternetNews
April 6, 2005
Michael Singer |
IBM, Oracle Lean on Open Source for Grid Linux and other standards are filling out grid projects for IBM and Oracle. |
BusinessWeek
October 18, 2004
Steve Hamm |
Getting A Grip On Grid Computing After a lot of hype and a long buildup, grid computing is going mainstream, as more companies are farming out jobs to groups of networked computers. Analysts say 300 to 500 grids have been set up by, or for, businesses in the past year or so. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM Grid in The Insurance Business IBM said it has created IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis, a new grid computing package to help life insurance companies cut the time needed to run detailed insurance model scenarios. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2001
John Teresko |
The Promise Of Grid Computing The technology affects all IT fundamentals -- available computing power, applications, and the way businesses collaborate... |
InternetNews
November 17, 2004
Michael Singer |
Sun Lights Up $1 Grid Sun Microsystems continued its disruptive pricing strategy this week with a new grid computing offer that costs $1 per -CPU, per-hour to use. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Sun's Grid DDOS-Attacked Sun's public grid launch was hampered by denial-of-service attacks on the company's grid pilot. |
New Architect
April 2002
Jay Lyman |
Girding for the Grid When a computing project demands greater processing resources than are available locally, the grid lets remote machines lend their CPU and storage to the task, across a network... |
InternetNews
June 12, 2007
Paul Shread |
UD Sees Bright Future for Grid Vendors Far from being left behind by virtualization, United Devices sees grid computing companies as uniquely positioned to help data centers make the most of virtualization. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Gagliardi & Grey |
Old World, New Grid CERN's massive parallel processing system is expanding from particle physics to everything else, and from Europe to everywhere else. The initiative, funded by the European Union, is called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). |
Bank Technology News
July 2005
Michael Dumiak |
Grid Computing: The Grid Is Going Mainstream Fast Grid computing systems have come far from their roots, and are now maturing. Ohio Savings, Wachovia and Credit Suisse First Boston are getting their feet wet, as the GSEs use it to clean up regulatory trouble. |
InternetNews
June 18, 2004
Clint Boulton |
How May They Server You? Led by Linux and Windows, IDC expects the server market to flourish by 2008. |
InternetNews
May 11, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Grid Computing That Heals Itself IBM releases Batch-on-Grid, a spin on its autonomic computing software designed for parallel computing. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Tool eases Grid monitoring Although the concept of coordinating otherwise unused computers distributed around a worldwide network is relatively simple, the coordination takes a lot of effort. As Grid computing becomes more commonplace, researchers are developing tools like Gridscape that simplify the practice. |
Bank Technology News
October 2003
Holly Sraeel |
Good Grief, This Idea Has Been a Long Time Coming The larger the bank, the more sense grid computing makes, and the more efficiency it yields. This is something all CIOs need to consider as they look at a networked enterprise. |
Insurance & Technology
November 24, 2003
Julie Gallagher |
Is Grid Computing Next Wave? Insurance companies that need to perform large processing tasks like scanning policies to see which ones are likely to generate claims can save money on hardware with grid computing. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 1, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
What's So Great About Grid? You wouldn't allow your employees to remain idle 70 percent of the time. And you shouldn't stand for it with your lazy computers, either. Grid technology allows unused CPU capacity to be used in solving large computational problems. |
InternetNews
January 17, 2006
Paul Shread |
Analysts See Big Year for Grid The coming year will be an important one for grid computing, according to a report by The 451 Group. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Sun Strikes Grid Computing Pact with Bank The systems vendor signs another major computing pact with BNP Paribas, a Parisian bank. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Paul Shread |
Grid Meets P2P A Grid Forum paper looks at ways to make grid computing and peer-to-peer applications work together. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2006
Clint Boulton |
EMC Closer to Utility Computing With Grid Buy EMC's purchase of Acxiom's grid software gives it an entrance into infrastructure to compete with IBM, Hewlett Packard and Sun. |
InternetNews
September 23, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Mark Linesch, Chairman, Global Grid Forum Mark Linesch runs the Global Grid Forum, an organization dedicated to solving the challenges that face grid computing. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2004
Paul Shread |
IDC Sees Big Opportunity for Grid Computing The grid computing market is 'on the verge of major expansion,' according to a new IDC report. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Paul Shread |
Grid Pioneers To Launch Company The creators of the widely-used Globus Toolkit have formed a company to provide commercial software, services and support for the open source software that has become the de facto standard for grid computing. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Analysts: Utility Computing a "Developing Concept" Customers and vendors like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems are only taking baby steps toward utility computing, according to new research. |
