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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.





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Power Grid

Smart Grid Technology: Vulnerable To Hackers

Technology / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(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

Technology / Telecom

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Self-organization of sandpile models

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 31, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

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. ...


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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and ...


NIST discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity

Researchers discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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

Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(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

created Oct 05, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

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 ...



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