In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

Suppose you needed the processing power of several thousand CPUs but didn't have a couple of billion dollars handy to purchase the hardware? It's a common problem at today's IT centers where shrinking ...

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 ...