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Smart Grid Technology: Vulnerable To Hackers
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Smart Grids are digitally based electricity distribution and transmission systems and test have shown that a hacker can break into the system resulting in a massive blackout.
Cisco outlines strategy for Smart Grid infrastructure
May 18, 2009 |
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Continuing its expansion into lucrative business niches, Cisco Systems on Monday will announce its entrance into the smart grid infrastructure market, which the company estimates will grow to $20 billion a year within the ...
Foundations for the World Wide Grid
Nov 20, 2008 |
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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.
Self-organization of sandpile models
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Dutch mathematician Anne Fey has investigated probability calculations in mathematical sandpile models. Although the rules of the model are simple, the wide-ranging behaviour that emerges from these is fascinating. Fey's ...
One-stop shop for grid computing (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 26, 2009 |
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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. ...
Exploring Ways to Expand Power Grid
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and ...
FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.
Researchers discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal grains can significantly improve the performance ...
Grid applications: a new way to do business
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Grid technology developed by European researchers offers a new way to do business, with partners working simply, seamlessly and ‘virtually’ around a common goal. It is already having a big impact, in a variety ...
Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the ...
Grid computing offers new hope in race against bird flu
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 05, 2007 |
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Last month a collaboration of European and Asian researchers launched a new attack against the deadly bird flu virus, harnessing the combined power of more than 40,000 computers across 45 countries to boost the pace of anti-viral ...
New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Liquid Battery Offers Promising Solar Energy Storage Technique
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest challenges currently facing large-scale solar energy technology is finding an effective way to store the energy, which is essential for using the electricity at night or ...
How do you say grid computing in Spanish?
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(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. ...
Benefits of a 'smart' power grid in debated
Apr 29, 2009 |
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When Kevin Linn of Coral Springs, Fla., received a special power meter last October, he was able to check his usage day by day and hour by hour via the Internet. He found spikes in midday when no one was home -- the water ...
