The company is releasing another version of its Grid Engine software to make the program work better on larger networks of computers.

The company signs a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its After Effects Professional video effects software to tap into spare computing power on a network.

Grid computing is a hardware and software infrastructure that clusters and integrates high-end computers, networks, databases and scientific instruments from multiple sources to form a virtual ...

PBS Works, a division of Altair Engineering Inc., Tuesday announced the availability of PBS Works 10.4, the company's suite of on-demand computing technologies. PBS Works 10.4 provides new ...

An open source software platform for volunteer and grid computing projects. The software runs in the background on any type of computer, exploiting otherwise idle computing resources. Scientists ...

Sun Grid, launched in February and being tested with about 100 companies, is a computing service modeled closely on the delivery of electricity and other utilities, such as water and gas. In the ...

Like grid computing, the Web services idea revolves around future software applications that are created on the fly out of programs and data that live on the Internet, not the user’s machine.

Cloud computing and Grid computing are the two words that end up confusing many people as they are similar in theory. We explain the differences.

David Pallmann shows how to perform grid computations on the Azure cloud computing platform. In Part 1 he presents a design pattern, while Part 2&3 will contain a concrete code example.

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating 'Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...