Server powers launch new grid group

IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Intel are banding together to steer an open-source software package called the Globus Toolkit.

"In the latest effort to put corporate teeth into the amorphous idea of grid computing, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Intel are banding together into a new group called the Globus Consortium. The consortium will try to steer an open-source software package called the Globus Toolkit, which helps universities, companies and other customers run software on large groups of networked computers called grids. Grids today are chiefly used for high-performance computing tasks such as climate simulation, but computing companies believe they'll eventually run mainstream business software as well. Other members of the consortium are Univa, which is commercializing the Globus Toolkit, and Nortel Networks...."

[Via CNET News.com]