Peer-to-peer or grid computing has been around for quite a few years now. Corporate enterprises have shown little interest, but the scientific community has embraced it as a means to enable its ...

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 ...

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 harness idle workstations Steven ...

BOSTON — On most days, the big enterprise vendors, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., knock one another’s technology in their fight for customers. But today at a conference on grid ...

NEC Corporation is to provide Mazda Motor Corp. with an experimental grid computing system that will undergo testing in 2005, the companies said today. If the tests are successful, NEC hopes to become ...

The executives also hinted that the utility computing infrastructure, like any utility such as electricity, will be commoditized to the point at which exchanges will be set up to handle the price of ...