Here’s a guide to the equipment necessary to generate and store minimal power for a remote property, from the solar panels to the breaker panel.

Grid computing hooks up to open standards Analysis: The development of a global system of distributed computing will take no little time and involves many novel concepts.

Slated to be ready by early 2008, the national grid infrastructure will give enterprises on-demand access to grid computing on a pay-per-use basis.

Grid computing allows a company to share its data-processing workload among its servers, workstations and storage, as long as excess capacity exists on each of these resources. As workload increases ...

Grid computing 101: Boost your startup beyond boundaries Learn how distributed computing can transform your business, cut costs, and boost productivity.

According to GTM Research, applying cognitive computing is expected to deliver an estimated $121 billion global return on investment (ROI) on grid analytics by 2020.

The main parts of the grid computing system will be housed in data storage facilities set up around the nation as the grid grows, Hollebeek said.

"Grid computing, which allows users to access the computing resources of many different machines distributed around the world, has been invaluable to science.

Sun released a beta version 5.3 of its Grid Engine software, which comes with policies that make it easier to set up which tasks may run on which computers, the company said. It released the ...