Charles Schwab's new Linux-based grid computing system, developed with help from IBM, includes only 12 servers now. But starting next year, the discount brokerage plans to tap into thousands of ...

Grid Computing Key players Andrew Chien Entropia Peer-to-Peer Working Group Andrew Grimshaw Avaki; U. Virginia Commercial grid software Miron Livny U. Wisconsin, Madison Open-source system to ...

IBM rival Sun Microsystems is also hard at work on distributed computing, through its Grid Engine software, and it too hopes a larger community will back the technology.

The increasing power demands of data centers are adding urgency to grid resiliency and renewable energy projects. Data center ...

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