(1) May refer to a cloud computing service that provides a complete server infrastructure but not applications. See cloud computing. (2) A parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are ...

Distributed computing is nothing new. The idea of taking a task too big for one computer and spreading it across many machines has been around since the sixties, especially in research, scientific and ...

Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards that extends Web services and service-oriented architecture to the grid computing environment. OGSA definitions and criteria describe how ...

Computer Science 101 Final Paper: In 400 words or fewer, define the following terms while accurately and concisely describing how they differ from one another: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — IBM and several other vendors on Tuesday unveiled three specifications intended to converge Web services and grid computing. Introduced at the GlobusWorld 2004 conference here were ...

Such were the roots of cloud computing as we have come to know it. In that sense, cloud is a trip back to the future... For example, no one talks about minicomputers anymore, even though for the ...

For the last decade, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has promoted his pet idea that traditional application software was destined for obsolescence. He was a few years early, but Benioff understood ...

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Steve Tuecke, the grid computing pioneer behind the open-source Globus software, passed away Nov. 2 after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 52 years old. Tuecke was CEO and project lead of ...

Cloud computing vendors are moving toward a common definition and forming industry groups to collaborate on building cloud technologies. When “cloud computing” became the buzz-phrase du jour in IT ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...