Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards that extends Web services and service-oriented architecture to the grid computing environment. OGSA definitions and criteria describe how ...

Grid computing is an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to model a virtual computer architecture ...

Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on.

This grid currently utilizes 15,000 processor cores, primarily from the Opteron family of processors. Consolidating these cores into a centralized architecture allowed AMD to increase efficiencies, ...

A sense of deja vu is sweeping through IBM’s executive offices. Hardware, a category of computer technology that has been commoditized over the past several years because of falling prices, once again ...