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Towards a World Wide Grid?

In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT Results will report about the g-Eclipse project. As the scientists said, 'the g-Eclipse...

Tags: Grid, Roland Piquepaille, Middleware, Eclipse, g-Eclipse, Eclipse Project, Open Source

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Free the Obama Blackberry

Trying to take the President "off the grid" is becoming more technically difficult and more legally indefensible every day. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Grid, President, Obsession, President-elect Barack Obama, Computer Technology, E-mail, Blogging, Open Source, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?

Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?Gore MistakeAl is making a big mistake with marketing this plan.Power transmission is extremely inefficient, and the infrastructure is very costly to maintain. This cannot change with a ‘smart grid’, because no grid is smart enough...

Tags: Al Gore, vision, Power Transmission, POWER LINES

Discussion threads 2008-11-09

Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?

This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...

Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Sudokool (zip)

Features of Sudokool: Play unlimited puzzles in 4 difficulty levels: Simple, Easy, Medium, and Hard. Option to play with hints: view all the possibilities on the puzzle grid. Option to play with warnings in case of wrong entries. User can input puzzle from newspapers directly on the grid. Then puzzle...

Tags: Window, Grid, Shiraz, Construction, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-16

Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.

More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

ArtenQuery (zip)

ArtenQUERY supports very large grids. Depending on the number of columns and the type of data contained, it is possible (if you really, really wanted) to load more than one million rows into the grid! If you are looking for a tool that is easy to use and powerful, that...

Tags: Grid, Arten Science

Software downloads 2008-10-03

MFC Grid (zip)

MFC Grid permits you to create a complex, well-designed application only in a few lines of code. This threadsafe component supports MVC pattern and works with arbitrary C++ objects, directly inserted into the rows. These objects can be updated, sorted, filtered, highlighted in real time with the incredible speed.This version...

Tags: Grid, Object, Dapfor, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-10-02

(Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success)

(Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success)Coilliding protons is nothing newAnd nothing to worry about. Humans have been doing it for years, and Nature has been doing it for much longer.As far as the LHC, they have accomplished what they set out to do: build a functioning collider which uses higher...

Tags: Hadron, Doomsday Machine, LHC

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible

So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. See Ars for snark But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth of grid computing....

Tags: Data, Distributed Computing, Grid, LHC, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Echelon wins smart meter project in Germany; plus insight on smart grid in Europe

A reseller for smart grid technology player Echelon announced a deal this week to deploy an advanced metering infrastructure system that will serve roughly 10,000 customers in Hassfurt, Germany. The contract, which will be rolled out over the next three years, is being handled by EVB Energie AG. The utility...

Tags: Germany, Green Technology, Echelon, Grid, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Tams11 Jumblelaya (exe)

Jumblelaya is a word finding game similar to Boggle. Find words on different size grids by selecting connecting letters. The host can select to play on different size grids, different play to scores, time limits, and with a minimum number of letters per word. Needs the Tams11 Lobby from www.tams11.com...

Tags: Letter, Grid, Tams11 Software, Jumblelaya

Software downloads 2008-09-03

All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture it

All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture itI wonder...If they have considered this tech working with the flow cell battery things like they have in Australia.

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar energy

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid

In my last article I described what it feels like to have your house struck by lightning. Luckily there were no injuries or structural damage thanks for your kind words in the comments, but our gadgets and other electronics inside the house weren't so lucky. This is their tale. ...

Tags: Game, Phone, Router, TiVo Inc., Grid, Cable, Cable Guy, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-20

DyNeF: Host-Privilege-Based Dynamic Network Firewall for Grid Environment

Security in grid environment is still a major challenge considering the possible security breaches that can occur in a multi-institutional resource sharing infrastructure. Unlike the Internet, grid is a dynamic collection of resources, users and services that poses increased security challenges to the research community. This paper address the need...

Tags: Network, Environment, Grid, Grid Environment, Firewalls, Security, Networking

White papers 2008-08-01

Photos: Let there be light off the grid

How many start-ups does it take to change a lightbulb? Entrepreneurs and investors aim to turn a profit with energy-efficient lighting. by CNET News.com

Tags: Grid, Photograph, Lightbulb, Entrepreneurship, Management, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-06-24

SudokuPRO (exe)

Sudoku is a logic-based number placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 99 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 33 boxes also called blocks or regions contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each. The puzzle setter provides a partially...

Tags: Puzzle, Grid, Square, Sudoku, Puzzle Setter, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-06-24

GRID demo (zip)

GRID takes players to beautifully realised and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in a variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars--new and classic, circuit and drift--players compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete...

Tags: Codemasters, GRID, Games, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-23

Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise

One of the most powerful features of computing grids is the capability to identify and allocate resources needed to build and run applications on demand and in almost real time, without months of negotiation or waiting for the hardware procurement cycle to facilitate it. While most discussions...

Tags: Webcast, Grid Computing, Grid, Intel Corp., Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking

Webcasts 2008-04-22

Bogemic Grid (exe)

Bogemic Grid ActiveX is a customizable grid control for COM/.NET programmers that allows to create spreadsheet applications with a printing support, scripting, and charts. Written using C++ and ATL, Bogemic Grid ActiveX is a lightweight with numerous properties, events, and methods. Version 1.2 includes the following updates: added new interface...

Tags: Method, Grid, Spreadsheet, Bogemic Sofware, Bogemic Grid ActiveX, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-04-09