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Grid Partnership Sharpens Blades
By Paul Shread - Published January 31, 2006
ClearCube and DataSynapse have partnered to create a grid-enabled PC blade solution for financial services. [more News]

Aspeed Accelerates Drug Development
By Paul Shread - Published January 24, 2006
Aspeed speeds up NONMEM drug development software. Also, DataSynapse reports strong growth, and the Gridbus Project unveils Alchemi enterprise application software. [more News]

Analysts See Big Year for Grid
By Paul Shread - Published January 17, 2006
The coming year will be an important one for grid computing, according to a report by The 451 Group. [more News]

EMC Closer to Utility Computing With Grid Buy
By Clint Boulton - Published January 6, 2006
EMC's purchase of Acxiom's grid software gives it an entree into infrastructure to compete with IBM, HP and Sun. [more News]

EMC Goes Grid For $30M
By Clint Boulton - Published January 5, 2006
EMC partners with Acxiom and buys the company's software to fashion an information grid product. [more News]

Grid Discovers Largest Known Prime Number
By Sharon Gaudin - Published December 28, 2005
Using an international grid of about 70,000 computers, researchers this month discovered a 9.1 million-digit figure. [more News]

Univa Ships Enterprise Globus Beta Release
By Paul Shread - Published December 20, 2005
Univa Corp., the grid computing company launched by the founders of the open source Globus Toolkit, has released the beta version of its first software product. [more News]

Ivy Leaguers Tap Into Sun's Grid
By Clint Boulton - Published December 12, 2005
Sun gives Princeton University 100,000 hours on the Sun Grid to conduct astrophysical tests. [more News]

Analysts: Utility Computing a 'Developing Concept'
By Clint Boulton - Published December 9, 2005
Customers and vendors such as IBM, HP and Sun are only taking baby steps toward utility computing, according to The 451 Group. [more News]

HP Goes Public With Utility Computing
By David Needle - Published November 30, 2005
Company offers range of services for enterprise customers looking to tap additional compute resources. [more News]

Globus Wins NSF Grant
By Paul Shread - Published November 29, 2005
The NSF has awarded $13.3 million for Globus Toolkit development. Also, Mathematica Personal Grid Edition has been released, and the World Community Grid launches FightAIDS@Home. [more News]

U.K. Warms to Sun's Grid Storage
By Clint Boulton - Published November 29, 2005
Sun creates two new grid storage utility services and agrees to dole out 2 million computing CPUs. [more News]

Digital Mammography on The Grid
By Erin Joyce - Published November 21, 2005
MyNDMA portal is expanding its On Demand portal offerings that help more women store their digital mammography in a secure place. [more News]

Supercomputing With Microsoft
By Clint Boulton - Published November 15, 2005
The software giant's new Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is aimed at serving departments and workgroups. [more News]

Grid Standards Groups Weigh Merger
By Paul Shread - Published November 14, 2005
The Global Grid Forum and Enterprise Grid Alliance are in discussions that could lead to a merger. [more News]

Utility Computing Gears Up
By David Needle - Published November 10, 2005
Sun scores big customer win, while HP plans to expand offering. [more News]

Terrascale, Digipede Advance Grid Offerings
By Paul Shread - Published November 8, 2005
Terrascale qualifies TerraGrid with HP, and Digipede unveils a new version of its Windows platform. [more News]

Will Open Standards Drive Grid Adoption?
By Jeff Vance - Published November 2, 2005
As grid computing makes its way from academia into the enterprise, open standards should pave the way for wider adoption but, like all things IT, it's not that simple. [more Features]