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 ...

IBM last week announced an initiative to expand its grid computing offerings from its traditional niche in academia and research to commercial enterprises. Under the plan, IBM will deliver 10 separate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For enterprise software engineers that want to cut their teeth on Grid computing development, a new release by Charles River Media, Inc. “Grid Computing for Developers” might be worth taking a look at ...

Thomas Morstyn receives research funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK, Outlook Energy and IONATE. The research this article is based on was ...

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 ...

The database giant said Wednesday that the performance, availability and scalability it has been touting for its database are perfectly suited to grid computing, in which computational tasks are ...