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 ...

Breast cancer treatment and research are getting a big boost from a new grid computing system that will link hospitals, doctors and researchers as they seek new ways of fighting the disease. The ...

In the past several years, scientific and information technology publications have either encouraged or debated the use of grid computing. Major hardware and software companies have tried to take ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...