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 ...

Apple Computer set its sights even more squarely on supercomputing and distributed grid computing this week with the preview and beta release of its Xgrid technology designed for scientists and their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Although grids and clusters may both satisfy high-performance or high-throughput requirements by enabling distributed computing, grids solve the more complicated problem of providing computing ...

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 ...