Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...

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 ...

In the new wave of cloud native technology, Southern Power Grid Data Platform and Safety (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. recently obtained an important patent, marking a further breakthrough in the field of ...

Data centers may not be visible to most Americans, but they are shaping everything from electricity use to how communities ...

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. Stephen Shankland ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...