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  • Australian grid computing: Creating science fact

    ZDNet Australia looks into collaborative research and development work going into grid computing, and speaks to some of the key local players in this extremely promising arena.

  • Australian scientists claim grid computing win

    Australian computer scientists Alexander Barmouta and Rajkumar Buyya have brought grid computing one step closer to commercialsation, releasing a preliminary protoype of their Grid Bank resource accounting infrastructure.

  • Fiorina: Grid computing overhyped

    The grid idea seems to have sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at OracleWorld, inspiring breathless exuberance and sober reassessment in just four days.

  • Oracle plots grid computing consortium

    An executive with the database software maker says the company is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing.

  • HP mixes business with grids

    Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.

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    Whenever the industry's top execs come together to speak to the masses, expectations are high. This year's Oracle OpenWorld conference provided an insight into which vendors have intriguing grand plans, and which ones prefer to rely on marketing bluff.

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  • Microsoft gets on the grid

    Looking to blunt the success of Linux in high-performance computing, Microsoft is ramping up its commitment to create a "Cluster Compute" version of Windows that better fits data-intensive computing grids.

  • Fiorina: Grid computing overhyped

    The grid idea seems to have sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at OracleWorld, inspiring breathless exuberance and sober reassessment in just four days.

  • What on earth are grids anyway?

    What exactly is grid computing? Here are answers to everything you wanted to know about the technology but were afraid to ask.

  • Grid computing luring mainstream backers

    High-tech giants are nudging the grid computing into the business world. Is the obscure concept in your company's future?

  • Oracle enters the grid

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  • HP mixes business with grids

    Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.

  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

  • Round-up: Dual-core servers

    Multi-core processors deliver many benefits, including much-improved performance per watt, over single-core designs. We examine three dual-core servers from the leading vendors to see what this technology can do for your business.

  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

  • iSeries rises to conflicting demands

    IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.

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