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 ...

Adding renewable energy and energy storage capacity brings an added layer of complexity to traditional electrical grid systems. Balancing supply and demand of energy for power systems, even under ...

Advances in computing power and acceptance of open standards in data transport could provide engineers with fast and complete design solutions to their most intricate problems. Applying the Internet's ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Grid Research Innovation and Development Center (GRID-C) uses the laboratory’s electric grid to prove innovations for smooth ...

Power grid operators, such as National Grid in the UK, rely on high-performance computers to plan grid expansions and to schedule when energy should be produced from different sources. These problems ...

The rapid evolution of modern power systems toward highly interconnected and digitized smart grids has significantly improved operational efficiency, ...

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, has added Oracle Corp. as a new member to its testing unit for advanced grid computing technology. Like the other four members of ...

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively. Depending on who describes it, grid computing has grown from ...

Given that Grid has such profound implications for the future of distributed computing, it has been somewhat of a surprise that the networking vendors and telco service providers have not yet been ...

One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans ...