grids
RSS gridsData Grids & SOA
White Paper This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Discover why the data grid offers improved data access that can... [15 Oct 2009]
The Economic Benefits of Smart Grids and the Role of Communications
White Paper Recent concerns with the global economy have raised questions about what people might be prepared to give up in response to tougher economic times. While many familiar items may be considered, it is unlikely that electricity would be... [02 Oct 2009]
Oracle celebrates 11g's second birthday with database overhaul
News This provides server-pooling technologies, so it's easier for users to provision and manage database grids. Oracle said on Tuesday that the second release of its 11g database is generally available. The update comes two... [02 Sep 2009]
Oracle Identity Management 11gR1
White Paper OFM 11g greatly increases the efficiency of modern data centers by extending the capabilities of application grids. Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM) 11g provides a unified, standards-based infrastructure allowing customers... [02 Sep 2009]
Data Mining Storm Attributes From Spatial Grids
White Paper A technique to identify storms and capture scalar features within the geographic and temporal extent of the identified storms is described. The identification technique relies on clustering grid points in an observation field to find... [29 Aug 2009]
Issues in Applying Data Mining to Grid Job Failure Detection and Diagnosis
White Paper Recently, machine-learning techniques have been proposed to detect a variety of application failures in grids. This paper explores some issues that arise when one tries to apply existing implementations of data mining... [29 Aug 2009]
Data Capture and Data Mining of Urban Air Pollution: The Building-Based Approach
White Paper In this paper, representative air quality model systems, their data captures and their applications are reviewed, which show that the input/output spatial data are commonly stored in regular grids with resolutions of 1-2... [29 Aug 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News Cisco Systems, the largest networking company in the world, recently said it sees a $100bn market in helping power utilities better manage their electrical grids using communication technology. Researchers have come up... [19 Aug 2009]
High-Powered Business Results With Lower Power Costs: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
White Paper Deployment models range from stand-alone servers to clusters, even grids, and consolidated, virtualized environments. Enterprise data centers meet many needs, from email systems to line-of-business processes,... [31 Jul 2009]
A Planet of smarter cities
White Paper Smarter transportation, policing, governance and grids promise relief to urban areas. As populations grow at a fast clip, they are stressing our city infrastructures. [23 Jun 2009]
Dell Helps Lead Scale-Out Industry-Standard Server Computing
White Paper Many have turned to server farms, clusters, or grids of x86 industry-standard servers as cost-effective alternatives to larger, proprietary symmetrical multiprocessing systems. Meeting business requirements for less. [18 Jun 2009]
Scaling Out With Oracle RAC 10g on Dell Clusters
White Paper In this way, enterprise grids may provide increased hardware utilization, stability, and scalability while helping to lower total cost of ownership. Oracle Database 10g is designed to enable enterprise grid computing,... [18 Jun 2009]
David Lister
CIO Profile Lister told silicon.com: "It's a great time to be joining National Grid, there are dramatic changes in the industry from the increasing renewables and nuclear agenda, to smart grids and smart metering. [01 Jun 2009]
David Lister on smart grids and why he left RBS
Comment It was Lister's passion for change that led him to the power industry, a sector grappling with the twin challenges of rebuilding electricity grids around clean power generation, and providing smart technologies that... [29 May 2009]
Creating Our 21st Century Economy Through a Smart Grid
White Paper The US Conference of Mayors demonstrated their leadership by passing a resolution in support of "Smart grids" and GridWise last summer. New technologies are already available to deploy the Smart Grid now. [14 May 2009]
