News tagged with wide grid


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 weblog

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and ...


FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

(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.


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 ...


Google-Fujitsu join 'smart objects' alliance

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Internet powerhouse Google and Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu have joined an alliance to promote the ability of objects from appliances to cars to communicate with one another online.


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. ...


Tuning in to the virtues of virtual labs

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The grid’s huge communication and computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run remote experiments anywhere in the world. European researchers have now mapped out how that can be done.



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