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    Social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, according to a study.

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    Though still in its early days, grid computing looks to have a promising future -- if vendors can continue to educate IT departments about its benefits.

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    In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?

  • Itanium gets supercomputing software

    Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

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