national grid
RSS national gridThe Gold Standard for Operating System Security: SKPP
White Paper With the recent NSA evaluation of INTEGRITY to the Common Criteria SKPP standard, there now exists, for the first time in history, an operating system that can be trusted to protect corporate intellectual property, financial records,... [13 Nov 2009]
Earth System Grid Authentication Infrastructure: Integrating Local Authentication, OpenID and PKI
White Paper Climate scientists face a wide variety of practical problems, but there exists an overarching need to efficiently access and manipulate climate model data. Increasingly, for example, researchers must assemble and analyze large datasets... [02 Oct 2009]
A Vision for the Modern Grid
White Paper Given the vision, one can create the alignment necessary to inspire passion, investment, and progress toward an advanced US grid for the 21st century. A modernized grid is a necessary enabler for a... [02 Oct 2009]
David Lister
CIO Profile David Lister joined the National Grid in March 2009 and is responsible for the vast IT infrastructure that underpins the giant utility company. Lister told silicon.com: "It's a great time to be joining... [01 Jun 2009]
David Lister on smart grids and why he left RBS
Comment It's a great time to be joining National Grid. He talks to Nick Heath about why he left RBS and how he will meet the challenges ahead as group CIO for National Grid. It... [29 May 2009]
Smart meter in every UK home by 2020
News It states: "The government believes smart meters will both change our energy habits in the short term and provide an essential stepping stone to smart grids in the future" - where micro-generation of renewable energy at household and/or... [11 May 2009]
'Invest £15bn in tech - create 700,000 jobs'
News We also note that additional investment in the smart grid is in line with national objectives to increase the security and reliability of critical infrastructure such as the power grid,"... [30 Apr 2009]
A public sector romance and 10 per cent UK headcount cut
News TCS currently provides services to more than 170 commercial and public organisations in the UK and Ireland, including British Airways, BT and the National Grid. Indian outsourcer TCS has cut its UK... [07 Apr 2009]
Asciano Improves Application Performance Fourfold With Grid Computing
White Paper To ensure application availability and scalability, the company turned to Oracle's Grid technology. Asciano was formed in 2007 following a merger between rail freight services provider Pacific National... [03 Mar 2009]
Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems
White Paper At least one large national-scale computing grid has reported a failure rate of as high as thirty percent of submitted jobs, often due to accidentally filled shared storage spaces. Shared temporary... [04 Feb 2009]
Gredia Middleware Architecture
White Paper This paper presents RDLS (Rich Data Location Services), a grid middleware for data management designed to meet the requirements posed by the GREDIA project. These services can be efficiently integrated in existing... [15 Jan 2009]
National Grid sparks up £5m Vodafone deal
News National Grid has signed a £5m-plus deal with Vodafone to shift its voice and data network to the mobile provider. Under the three-year contract, Vodafone will also provide remote working capabilities... [06 Jan 2009]
Fault Tolerance Management for a Hierarchical GridRPC Middleware
White Paper This paper aims at adapting to these novelties by providing the first implementation and evaluation in a grid system of the optimal fault detector, a novel and simple checkpoint API allowing to manage both service... [03 Jan 2009]
The future of climate change is in Linux's hands
Case Study With scientists across Europe and beyond contributing information to the project and analysing the results, Millennium Simulations needs a lot of bandwidth - bandwidth enabled by Géant2, a grid linking... [08 Dec 2008]
New Gravity Database and Web Portal for the United States
White Paper Thus, the group helped lead a cooperative effort between government agencies, industry, and universities to compile an upgraded digital gravity anomaly database, grid, and map for the conterminous United States. [25 Nov 2008]
