IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality. "Grid" technology, which distributes computing jobs and databases across numerous servers, ...

CryptoEasily is a global cloud computing service platform that integrates distributed computing resources, allowing ...

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 ...

So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. (See Ars for snark) But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...