Grid computing is no empty buzz phrase. In fact, it’s a very substantial approach for scaling and optimizing distributed hardware resources. Grids aggregate idle processor cycles, storage capacity and ...

An effort in which thousands of people donate their computers' unused processing power uncovers the largest prime number so far known. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Grid computing to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world. Stephen Shankland ...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a decade since I-Way, the first large-scale grid experiment. For those of us who were there at the genesis of the technology, it’s been exciting to see more ...

A systems administrator — not a mathematician — used a grid of computers supplied by volunteers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to find the world’s largest known prime number. The ...

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 ...