What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

Speaking to a crowded keynote audience at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Phillips outlined what grid computing is and why Oracle is investing its entire software strategy in providing an ...

BOSTON — On most days, the big enterprise vendors, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., knock one another’s technology in their fight for customers. But today at a conference on grid ...

For UPS, is not about how to get more horsepower for demanding workloads; it’s about consolidating, streamlining and using technology to get an edge on the competition. “Using technology to ...

Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...

Picture this scenario: At 2:37 a.m. during a storm, lightning strikes a distribution feeder line in rural Wisconsin. A massive power surge races through the distribution network. Instead of triggering ...

A few months ago (when he was still at MCI), we asked Vint Cerf a few network-specific questions about Grid. Here’s what he had to say: 1. A recent Nemertes study said that 62% of organizations are ...

The executives also hinted that the utility computing infrastructure, like any utility such as electricity, will be commoditized to the point at which exchanges will be set up to handle the price of ...

Sensors are an indispensable tool to inform utility managers of the state of the electricity grid and the occurrence of ...