From 1982, the California firm of GRiD Computer Systems, Inc., sold laptop computers of this type, using Intel microprocessors. Examples of early GRiD laptops were purchased by NASA, flew on the Space ...

A computational grid is a state-of-the-art platform in which computers, storage devices and visualization systems from different institutions can be utilized transparently by researchers to solve ...

Grid computing takes advantage of “down time” when computers are not using their full processing power to provide quick answers to problems in fields such as genomics, engineering design and ...

While todays largest computer grids are used primarily for scientific and research purposes—such as mapping human genes—the development of standard grid protocols could lead to commercial grids.