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IBM steps up grid partner plan

December 14, 2004 Big Blue says application providers are key to driving adoption of distributed grid computing in corporations. TAGS: grid computing, Hewitt Associates LLC, application provider, distributed computing, grid, Waltham, IBM Corp., software company, vice president, server

Grids get down to business

April 27, 2005 Two efforts aim to expand the use of grid computing beyond academia and into the business realm. TAGS: grid computing, consortium, grid, alliance, recommendation, expert, IBM Corp.

Oracle takes lid off grid plan

September 8, 2003 The company is turning up the buzz on grid computing, as the OpenWorld customer conference gets under way in San Francisco. TAGS: grid computing, Oracle Corp., payment processing, grid, business application, IBM Corp., conference, San Francisco, payment, server, database

Univa gets a new CEO

April 3, 2007 Jason Liu leaves Intrinsic Technologies to become the Chicago grid-computing company's third top boss. TAGS: Univa, grid computing, CEO, Chicago

Tata sets sights on grid computing

September 29, 2005 Indian software giant opens a lab dedicated to technologies such as grid computing and collaborative software. TAGS: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., grid computing, SOA, lab

Grid showcase tries to drive adoption in Asia

November 17, 2005 Sun, Oracle and AMD unveil a grid applications showcase in Singapore to try to drive regional adoption of the technology. TAGS: grid computing, ISV, Singapore, showcase, Oracle Application Server 10g, trio, Oracle Corp., grid, adoption, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., Asia, database server, AMD Opteron, AMD, manufacturing

Grid computing luring mainstream backers

February 21, 2002 Grid computing to date has largely been the terrain of academics and start-ups. But established tech companies are now nudging the concept toward the mainstream business world. TAGS: grid computing, grid, business computing, Web service, Sun Microsystems Inc., computing, concept, IBM Corp., reality, server, Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Hub spoke at Oracle's OpenWorld

December 6, 2004 Oracle President Charles Phillips talks data hubs and PeopleSoft during his conference keynote. TAGS: grid computing, Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, PeopleSoft Inc., hub, CIO, accounting, San Francisco, president, conference, server

Fathers of grid computing form start-up

December 13, 2004 If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. TAGS: Univa, grid computing, grid, Tim Berners-Lee, business computing, supercomputing, financial service, Scott McNealy, Oracle Corp., hiring, transportation, vision, telecommunications, Sun Microsystems Inc., start-up, CEO

Microsoft gets on the grid

October 5, 2005 Once quiet on computing grids, the software giant is upping its commitment to high-performance computing and grid industry standards. TAGS: high-performance computing, grid computing, grid, open standard, high-performance, commitment, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Corp., server, Microsoft Windows

Cisco to buy Topspin for $250 million

April 14, 2005 Networking giant gets a grip on the clustering racket with an agreement to buy the InfiniBand start-up. TAGS: TopSpin Communications, Cisco Systems Inc., InfiniBand, grid computing, emerging market, data center, networking, server

Grid gurus launch a start-up

December 13, 2004 If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. TAGS: Univa, grid computing, grid, Tim Berners-Lee, financial service, Scott McNealy, Oracle Corp., hiring, transportation, telecommunications, Sun Microsystems Inc., start-up, IBM Corp., Dell, CEO, database

IBM signs on Univa for grids

October 3, 2005 Big Blue will bundle Univa's commercial version of Globus grid software with its line of Unix and Linux servers. TAGS: Univa, grid computing, IBM Corp., grid, Unix, Linux, agreement, server

PlayStation 3 Cell chip aims high

February 4, 2005 The Cell processor, to be introduced at a research conference next week, implements some radical changes from current chip design. TAGS: grid computing, Sony PS3, Sony Playstation, architecture, conference, IBM Corp., cell phone, memory, Sony Corp., security, video

Computing grid hunts for bird flu cure

May 5, 2006 Grid of 2,000 computers looks for a potential virus inhibitor among known compounds. TAGS: scientist, grid computing, lab, Asia, virus, component

McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

June 9, 2005 Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM. TAGS: StorageTek, storage management, Sun Microsystems Inc., grid computing, Glasgow, Scott McNealy, Scotland, Sun Solaris, thin client, excitement, open source, CEO, acquisition, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., backup

Sun aims to sell computing like books, tickets

February 2, 2005 The firm hopes that bioscientists and geologists will buy computing cycles over the Web just like people buy merchandise online. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., grid, Scott McNealy, grid computing, computing, electricity, data center, server, IBM Corp., CPU
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