Microsoft will have its hands full with its Bigtop grid computing as it challenges technologies with years of history and powerful supporters.

Sun Microsystems plans to unveil a program in the first half of 2003 aimed at getting its U.S. solution providers involved in grid computing.

The company is releasing another version of its Grid Engine software to make the program work better on larger networks of computers.

Like grid computing, the Web services idea revolves around future software applications that are created on the fly out of programs and data that live on the Internet, not the user’s machine.

"It's really a gem that we can provide to our burgeoning industry to enable technology commercialization," said Dr. Chris ...

Office politics and other 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 released ...

With his corporate communications specialist cringing off stage, Rod Smith of IBM said what many in the IT business have come to suspect—that grid computing is another one of the industry's ...

Grid computing involves pooling the computing power of dozens, sometimes hundreds, of servers over a network to run programs more reliably and reduce the cost of maintaining data centers.

A biomedical engineering professor is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer.

Oracle and its allies say grid computing is different from preceding technologies because it will allow business programs, such as those dealing with payroll and order processing, to share ...

Scientists used grid computing to connect multiple workstations, which allowed them to work on complicated math problems and software compilations, utilizing idle CPUs to reduce processing times.