Corey Klaasmeyer defines grid computing and contrasts it with cluster computing. This article also leads the reader through a simple Globus Toolkit 4 grid service implementation.

If I said, “tell me everything you know about grid computing in 10 seconds…” you’d almost certainly mention IBM, maybe Oracle and Sun, you’d probably say “clusters” and if you’re a ...

Scyld, which is a subsidiary of Penguin Computing, develops and sells a cluster operating system called the Scyld Beowulf Series 29 Linux Clustering Software. Better known as Scyld Beowulf, the ...