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 ...

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 ...

Find grid news, events, activities, tools and systems, plus information on computational economy, portals, programming environments, applications, test beds and more here. A community-initiated forum ...

Data replication is a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, crucial for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid data access in both cloud and grid environments. Contemporary ...

BOSTON — Among the people on hand here for the GridWorld conference today was Randy Manchester, Linux systems manager at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Manchester is ...