The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices have unveiled a grid applications showcase in Singapore in a bid to drive regional adoption of the technology. The Business Grid technology showcase ...

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Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on.