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Monday, October 14, 2002
http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/10/network-computing-101102.html New grid networks put idle computing power to work Om Malik Twelve months ago, like most of his peers across North America, Huw Morgan, chief technology officer for Bell Globemedia Interactive, received an order from the bean counters: buy less gear, spend less money. But this was easier said than done. Bell Globemedia is the AOL Time Warner of Canada--10 million Canadians access the Internet through its service, which gains thousands of new users each month. That kind of growth was creating a heavy burden on the company's Internet infrastructure. Mr. Morgan was asked to cut back on equipment when it was needed most. As he was pondering that problem, he received a call from an executive at Think Dynamics, a Toronto-based company. The executive was pushing a new type of software that promised to help Mr. Morgan solve his dilemma. He proposed setting up a "minigrid." Think Dynamics' grid-computing software could respond to spikes in data traffic on Bell Globemedia's network by tapping into idle computing power spread across its network and two data centers....
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