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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given that Grid has such profound implications for the future of distributed computing, it has been somewhat of a surprise that the networking vendors and telco service providers have not yet been ...

A few months ago (when he was still at MCI), we asked Vint Cerf a few network-specific questions about Grid. Here’s what he had to say: 1. A recent Nemertes study said that 62% of organizations are ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE--The number of organizations that have, or are planning to adopt grid computing is growing faster in the Asia-Pacific region than the rest of the world, according to a new report.

Microsoft has released details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls. Microsoft created SecPAL, or ...