"Some national effort to make our electric grid a bit smarter, so it can better match power supply and demand during peak usage hours, seems likely to be part of President-elect Obama's infrastruct read more » DiscussBury
Bernard Lunn writes, "We have now passed the high water mark of this long distance, mass culture; the trend now is towards “re-localization”, where we are less dependent on the two dominant grids of read more » DiscussBury
Tony Davis writes, "David DeWitt and his team at Microsoft have been exploring the 'next frontier' of architectures for building the parallel and scalable database systems that will be needed to s read more » DiscussBury
Wagner James Au of Gigaom reports on how one startup named Plura is using the power of of the grid to aid in online games."When people come to these sites to play games a Java applet is initiated, w read more » DiscussBury
World Community Grid is a not-for-profit organization that uses idle personal computers to solve global challenges, including finding a cure for cancer, making rice crops with higher yields, and deve read more » DiscussBury
Mike Butcher reports that Wuala has opened its social storage grid to the public for three days, then will close it again until august when the full public release is made. Wuala will compete with traditional online storage providers like Box.net and Xdrive. read more » DiscussBury
Cels@home is making breakthroughs in cancer research. People are able to volunteer their computers when they are not using them without even leaving home. Through the use of grid computing researcher read more » DiscussBury
