Once stymied by U.S. sanctions but now aided by fast communications links, India's state-run agency for advanced computing plans to build a nationwide grid of supercomputers for mammoth applications.

If you want to invest in a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying Tim Berners-Lee to set up your home page. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

A nationwide supercomputing grid in the U.S. to help scientists tackle highly complex problems will be available in December, two years ahead of schedule, IBM said in a statement Friday. IBM and the U ...

This week’s Supercomputing 2025 conference in St. Louis brought a wide range of storage, server and other data center infrastructure technology aimed at helping business get ready for ...

Size matters in supercomputers because size translates into speed. And supercomputers are all about speed. The quest for the fastest computer to discover new drugs, crack ciphertext or model global ...

As computing power increased and prices dropped over the last part of the 20th century, it became clear that if large numbers of low-cost computers could be used in concert, they could provide ...

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 ...