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RSS grid a in newsOracle grid gets a bit of Sport Relief
News UK charity Sport Relief is to use Oracle's grid computing technology to ensure its web infrastructure can handle online donations and user demand. Oracle will provide a range of its flagship software products free of charge to enable Sport Relief... [14 Jul 2006]
Sun puts a limit on the grid
News Sun has upgraded its grid computing software in a bid to make the technology more attractive to businesses. Grid Engine Enterprise Edition version 5.3 lets administrators establish rules that control how computing jobs run, effectively allowing... [06 Jun 2002]
50,000 sign up to BBC weather grid project
News A grid computing project launched by the BBC, the Met Office and others back in 2003 has seen more than 50,000 users volunteer their home computing power in the name of climate change. The grid project discovered the UK's average temperature is... [19 Jan 2007]
IBM builds grid to fight cancer
News IBM's distributed computing initiative has taken another step forward with the creation of a computing grid between the University of Pennsylvania and four hospitals to develop advanced methods of breast cancer diagnosis. [28 Nov 2001]
IBM's grid project gets the mass-market treatment
News People began to recognise it as a powerful mechanism for driving grid systems," he said. In a deferential nod to OGSA's academic origins, the first two systems to be grid-enabled will be Linux and AIX, with the ZOS mainframe operating system, and... [20 Feb 2002]
Sun to revamp grid offering
News At least one high-level Sun Microsystems executive is departing after a shake-up that is also affecting Sun Grid, a service to let customers pay by the hour to use its computers. Sun is moving the grid away from its current incarnation as a stand... [18 Sep 2006]
Ellison holds forth on grid and rivals
News He noted how computers clustered together can provide faster processing power than mainframes and that the future will involve two or four-processor machines hooked together in a grid. Oracle founder Larry Ellison has reiterated his grid computing... [15 Jul 2004]
Grid computing fights breast cancer
News IBM has teamed up with Oxford University and the UK government to launch a grid computing system which it hopes will improve the detection rates of breast cancer. A grid consists of multiple computers and servers, all configured to share their... [14 Oct 2002]
Grid researchers go commerical
News The researchers who spawned the idea of grid computing will launch a company on Monday to commercialise what so far has been a very academic software project for sharing computing resources. For those wanting to spend money on a grid project... [13 Dec 2004]
Sun Grid battered by DoS attack
News Sun Microsystems' Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial of service network attack on its inaugural day, the company said on Wednesday. To let people try out the Sun Grid, the company made a text-to-speech translation... [23 Mar 2006]
Sun rises on pay-as-you-go grid computing
News The program, called the Secure N1 Grid, will cost $1 per processor per hour to use, President Jonathan Schwarz is expected to announce at a New York event designed to curry favour among Wall Street customers. [21 Sep 2004]
Grid seeks bird flu cure
News Scientists in the UK and Asia have deployed a computing grid to find a potential cure for Avian flu. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (Pparc) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed... [05 May 2006]
Grid boosts efforts to fight malaria
News Scientists working to find effective drugs to combat malaria have enlisted the computing muscle of a grid spanning 28 countries. In the four months the Wisdom grid was up and running, more than 140 million compounds were processed and a total of 2... [15 Feb 2007]
Grids bogged down by heaps of hype
News A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products. Mark Parsons, the commercial director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing... [20 May 2005]
Oracle joins grid effort
News Oracle announced on Wednesday that it is joining a major European research project aimed at boosting grid computing, a technique for divvying up intensive computing tasks among multiple systems. Grid computing emerged from academia as a way to... [05 Dec 2003]
