In a sort of digital interpretation of the adage, “Waste not, want not,” the basic idea of grid computing is to use the computational power of idle PCs and harness those heretofore wasted cycles to ...

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 ...

Suppose you needed the processing power of several thousand CPUs but didn't have a couple of billion dollars handy to purchase the hardware? It's a common problem at today's IT centers where shrinking ...