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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   |
Fast Company
May 2010 |
Worldwide Community Grid: How It Works How the shared-computer network that is helping scientists find cures for cancer connects users and crunches data. |
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.' |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Courtney McCarty |
Save the World with Your Screensaver Anybody would like to cure cancer or AIDS or solve the world's most complex problems. With the help of your computer, you can contribute to efforts to solve these enduring puzzles. |
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). |
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
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? |
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. |
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. |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Power Pool Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the 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
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. |
Wired
April 2004
Richard Martin |
The God Particle and the Grid The physics lab that brought you the Web is reinventing the Internet. Get ready for the atom-smashing, supercomputing, 5-gigabits-per-second Grid Economy. |
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... |
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. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Steve Hamm |
A Second Wind For Big Iron? Forty years into the mainframe's run, there's a new vision of centralized computing |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Mark Hall |
Grids: When Concepts Collide Within just a few years, grid computing has gone from being a subject discussed by only experts in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and networking to one that has captured the imagination of an increasingly large percentage of the computing public. |
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. |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
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... |
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. |
Chemistry World
November 8, 2013
Rowan Frame |
Big data approach to solar cells After 150 million theoretical calculations, scientists at Harvard University in the US reveal results that could cut down the time and cost of experimental tests to find better organic electronic materials for solar cells. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Your computer can fight AIDS A PC can do more in its spare time than look for aliens. It can also save lives. Even while you're reading this Web page, you could be researching new AIDS treatments, or rather, your computer could... |
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. |
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. |
PC World
May 2, 2001
Kevin McKean |
Give Your Unused Cycles to Science Say so long to screen savers and use your CPU's idle power for some worthwhile work... |
CIO
May 15, 2001
Fred Hapgood |
Good Software Gone Bad Are we ready yet for the beneficial computer virus? Nobody ever even breathes the term virus when discussing grid computing, but in a grid model programs spread out through the landscape, looking for, recognizing and recruiting unused resources... |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
Bio-IT World
August 18, 2004
Chris Dwan |
Grid Computing: Turning Hype into Reality How to make grid computing more useful. |
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. |
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. |
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
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... |
JavaWorld
September 2002
Robert McMillan |
IBM's grid conversion What lies beyond Web services? Some say the answer depends on the emerging model for distributed resource management known as grid computing. And if developers at IBM and the grid-based Globus Project are right, you'll be able to do grid computing with JBoss and IBM WebSphere within the year. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
September 10, 2004
Clint Boulton |
HP to Raise Storage Grid Profile The company will attempt to draw attention to its StorageWorks Grid technology, a core piece of its ILM movement. |
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. |
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. |
Bio-IT World
October 2005
Salvatore Salamone |
Global Grids, Global Changes The role of grids is on the cusp of a fundamental change. Grids now play a more central role in delivering and providing services to researchers, academics and medical businesses alike. |
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
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
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
April 18, 2005
Steve Hamm |
Beyond Blue Never mind computers and tech services. IBM's radical new focus is on revamping customers' operations -- and even running them. |
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
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. |
