Certainly for Grid computing environments — my perception has been that the lion’s share of major deployments out there today are running on Linux.

The ‘grid’ term tends to cover ‘true grid’ in terms of wide area cooperation, utility computing, and clustering.

The appeal of grid computing to the scientific community, financial services companies, the pharmaceutical industry and other compute-intensive users is strong and growing, according to those on ...

However, the vast amount of data needed to operate today’s grid requires the scale and speed of cloud computing to gather, analyze and derive the necessary insights for a more modern grid.