Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardized computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...

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 ...

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IBM aims to take the lead in distributed computing by creating the world's largest networked computing grid for scientific applications: the World Community Grid. The WCG is like the many distributed ...

Energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are estimated to increase by 1.5 billion tons by the end of 2021 from 2.3 billion tons in 2020. This is the second-largest increase in history and the largest ...

In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.