Corey Klaasmeyer defines grid computing and contrasts it with cluster computing. This article also leads the reader through a simple Globus Toolkit 4 grid service implementation.

Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun Microsystems on the basic principles of the software. For ...

Many users who have installed the latest Java updates from Apple (Java Update 2 for Mac OS X 10.5.x and release 7 for Mac OS X 10.4) are experiencing a problem in which many, if not all, of their ...

Recent Posts of Significant Interest (Java Security, XML, Cloud Computing) how-to Feb 19, 2011 6 mins Core Java ...

For decades, Java has been the enterprise world's go-to programming language—the reliable, if somewhat verbose, workhorse powering everything from banking systems to e-commerce platforms. But when the ...

The new release purportedly provides improved behavior for applets in Safari and increased stability for desktop Java applications. It also includes all the improvements from Java 1.4.2 Update 1.

On top of that, on average, Java loses to C++ by about 15%, especially when apps can be compiled for mass-scale computing (use profile-guided compilation, etc).

Connecting the 'DevOps, Agile and Java cloud native applications' dots A concise definition of both DevOps and cloud native computing is elusive, but Cisco's Ken Owens presents a unified theory that ...

Nearly a year after it announced a partnership with IBM to push Java computing to the edge of the Internet, Akamai is unveiling a new service that will enable customers to run WebSphere-based ...

NEW YORK--Wall Street on Java Technology conference speakers acknowledged the maturity of the Java development environment last week, but users and vendors demonstrated that they are still pushing the ...