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Grids get down to business

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New technology developed by European researchers allows companies to deploy their business processes using grid computing and, even better, it validates a platform that gives easy access to grid resources. ...


One-stop shop for grid computing

One-stop shop for grid computing (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. But accessing limited grid resources is not always a simple task. ...


Foundations for the World Wide Grid

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The dream of using the internet to allow people to access as much computer processing and storage power as they need, when they need it, is a step closer thanks to European researchers.


There's no business like Grid business

There's no business like Grid business (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have embraced the Grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research team has built a platform opening the Grid's vast resources ...


Many processors make light work of calculations

Many processors make light work of calculations

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Solving complicated calculations has never been easy, but a new European computing grid means researchers can number crunch their data faster than ever before.


Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR production demands

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. ...


Exploring Ways to Expand Power Grid

Technology / Energy

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and ...


New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing researchers to collaboratively develop ...


Semantic web promises a smarter electricity grid

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web technology ...


Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's ...


Researchers evaluate highway rest areas for wind power

Technology / Energy

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 0

Illinois is the Prairie State and home to the Windy City. And sometimes, when standing out in that prairie and feeling the wind racing across the state, you begin to wonder if there is anything between here and Kansas that ...


Medical data 'Internet' goes live, boosts research

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Medical and life scientists will be able to share information collected from many thousands of cases thanks to a digital network being launched at The Australian National University in Canberra today.


A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing

A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking ...


Most powerful computer of its kind in western N.Y. available worldwide

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created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Local scientist Dr. Russ Miller is leading the rollout of "Magic," one of the most powerful computers in New York State to qualified users worldwide for solving computationally-demanding problems.


How do you say grid computing in Spanish?

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Encouraged by the success of grid computing in Europe, scientists there set out to help their Latin American colleagues develop grid capability. The result today is a thriving trans-Atlantic collaboration. ...