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.

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

By introducing private cloud management capabilities, armed with standard host repurposing tools, any types of grid deployments can go from being static to dynamic.

Years before Amazon Web Services launched in March 2006, there were a slew of grid computing startups and incumbent system ...

With roots in computer clustering and grid computing, the technology that first sprouted during the ASP era of the late 1990s is now the computing topic du jour.

Financial institutions (FIs) are now expanding their on-premises grid computing capabilities and taking advantage of the storage capabilities that the cloud offers, in addition to agile processing ...

Amazon has announced a new cloud product aimed at bringing cloud-style scaling and flexibility to high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In short, the company has released a classic grid ...

The cloud could be a next generation platform that provides dynamic resource pools, virtualization and high availability. In beginning the construct of the Distributed Computing and also the Grid ...

However, the vast amount of data needed to operate today’s grid requires the scale and speed of cloud computing to gather, analyze and derive the necessary insights for a more modern grid.