Data Centers
The traditional data center is undergoing many changes, if not a revolution. Hybrid cloud infrastructures, hosted servers, virtualized servers, and new methods to save energy and reduce costs in the data center create an ever-challenging array of decisions for today's data center managers.
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Job Scheduling Algorithm for Computational Grid in Grid Computing Environment
Grid computing has emerged as a distributed methodology that coordinates the resources that are spread in the heterogeneous distributed environment. Grid Computing allow sharing of resources from hete...
Provided By International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Data Center Resource Management with Temporal Dynamic Workload
The proliferation of Internet services drives the data center expansion in both size and the number. More importantly, the energy consumption (as part of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)) has become a so...
Provided By University of Missouri-Columbia
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Speeding Up Searching in B-cloud System
With the enormous growth in data amount day by day storage demands have been imposed crucial requirements for data center, where data access plays essential role in estimation of data storage systems ...
Provided By Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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Global Load Balancing and Fault Tolerant Scheduling in Computational Grid
Grid computing is a replica of distributed computing that uses geographically and administratively different resources found on the network. These resources may include processing power, storage capac...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Hybrid Optical and Electrical Network Flows Scheduling in Cloud Data Centers
Hybrid intra-data centre networks, with optical and electrical capabilities, are attracting research interest in recent years. This is attributed to the emergence of new bandwidth greedy applications ...
Provided By University of Essen
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Brennercom Invests in Cloud and High-Density Innovation at Its Data Center
Brennercom is an Italian communications provider active over a vast area stretching from the provinces of Trentino Alto Adige throughout the territory. There challenges were to enhance Data Center cap...
Provided By Cisco
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Avoid making major mistakes in data center virtualization (Spanish)
With increasing demand for data centers, network infrastructure may become more complex and more costly. Cisco In this article, you'll discover how to avoid the five major errors during consolidation ...
Provided By Cisco
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TCO Analysis of a Traditional Data Center vs. a Scalable, Containerized Data Center
Standardized, scalable, pre-assembled, and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules provide a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) savings of 30% compared to traditional, built-out data ce...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Cooling Entire Data Centers Using Only Row Cooling
Row cooling is emerging as a practical total cooling solution for new data centers due to its inherent high efficiency and predictable performance. Yet some IT equipment in data centers appears incomp...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center
Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process is a ...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers
Standardized, pre-assembled and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules are at least 60% faster to deploy, and provide a first cost savings of 13% or more compared to traditional dat...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Data Center Temperature Rise During a Cooling System Outage
The data center architecture and its IT load significantly affect the amount of time available for continued IT operation following a loss of cooling. Some data center trends such as increasing power ...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers
Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are oversized, ...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Center Temperature and Efficiency
Both hot-air and cold-air containment can improve the predictability and efficiency of traditional data center cooling systems. While both approaches minimize the mixing of hot and cold air, there are...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Scheduling Tightly-Coupled Applications on Heterogeneous Desktop Grids
Platforms that comprise volatile processors, such as desktop grids, have been traditionally used for executing independent-task applications. In this paper, the authors examine the scheduling of tight...
Provided By University of Hawai'i
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A C++11 Implementation of Arbitrary-Rank Tensors for High-Performance Computing
In this paper, the authors discusses an efficient implementation of tensors of arbitrary rank by using some of the idioms introduced by the recently published C++ ISO Standard (C++11). With the aims a...
Provided By Cornell University
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Embrace the New Era of Data Centre Services and the Cloud
Read this white paper to learn about the trends affecting the data center and how cloud services are playing a huge role in helping organizations to modernize, improve utilization, and future-proof th...
Provided By Hewlett Packard
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Insurance Company Virtualizes Data Center and Desktops
Promutuel originated 160 years ago when farmers from Quebec had the innovative idea to band together and create their own insurance company. There challenges were runaway HQ data center server costs t...
Provided By Cisco
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Data Center Physical Infrastructure: Optimising Business Value
To stay competitive in today’s rapidly changing business world, companies must update the way they view the value of their investment in data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). No longer are simpl...
Provided By Schneider Electric - AU
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Top 10 Mistakes in Data Center Operations: Operating Efficient and Effective Data Centers
How can you avoid making major mistakes when operating and maintaining your data center(s)? The key lies in the methodology behind your operations and maintenance program. All too often, companies put...
Provided By Schneider Electric - AU
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Solutions for a More Energy-Efficient Data Center: From Water to Fresh-Air Cooling
This white paper discusses recent trends in the industry toward increasing energy efficiency of the data center in order to save on power and cooling costs without reducing performance. Included in th...
Provided By IBM
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Algorithmics and IBM Platform Computing solution for financial markets
This paper describes best practices on how to spread the computational demands of advanced risk analytics across a dynamic grid computing environment. With a more advanced and capable computing infras...
Provided By IBM
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Grid Maturity Report
As grid technology surpasses its tenth year in the banking industry, it’s more important than ever for banks to determine how mature grid technology performs alongside newer innovation like cloud and ...
Provided By IBM
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A General Framework for Achieving Energy Efficiency in Data Center Networks
The popularization of cloud computing has brought a concern over the energy consumption in data centers. In addition to the energy consumed by servers, the energy consumed by the large number of netwo...
Provided By Tsihai
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Driving operational excellence with predictive analytics
Manage physical and virtual assets, maintain your infrastructure and capital equipment and maximize the efficiency of your people, processes and assets with predictive analytics.
Provided By IBM
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Data Center Energy Cost Minimization: A Spatio-Temporal Scheduling Approach
Cloud computing is supported by an infrastructure known as Internet Data Center (IDC). As cloud computing thrives, the energy consumption and cost for IDCs are exploding. There is growing interest in ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Performance Characteristics of Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Scientific Applications on a Large-Scale Multithreaded BlueGene/Q Supercomputer
In this paper, the authors investigate the performance characteristics of five hybrid MPI/OpenMP scientific applications (two NAS Parallel benchmarks Multi-Zone SP-MZ and BT-MZ, an earthquake simulati...
Provided By Texas A&M International University
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Video: Q&A on Next Generation Networks with the Editors in Chief (AU)
The rise of cloud computing, big data, and video is driving tremendous demand for faster and more efficient networks. ZDNet editor in chief Larry Dignan and TechRepublic editor in chief Jason Hiner di...
Provided By ZDNet
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Video: Getting up to speed on the 21st century data center
Today’s data centers are more critical than ever as the nerve centers of modern business. There are new technologies that can make data centers more flexible, more powerful, and far more efficient. O...
Provided By ZDNet
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Video: Q&A on Next Generation Networks with the Editors in Chief
The rise of cloud computing, big data, and video is driving tremendous demand for faster and more efficient networks. ZDNet editor in chief Larry Dignan and TechRepublic editor in chief Jason Hiner di...
Provided By ZDNet
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MultiGreen: Cost-Minimizing Multi-Source Datacenter Power Supply with Online Control
Faced by soaring power cost, large footprint of carbon emission and unpredictable power outage, more and more modern Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) begin to mitigate these challenges by equipping thei...
Provided By Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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SmartDPSS: Cost-Minimizing Multi-Source Power Supply for Datacenters with Arbitrary Demand
To tackle soaring power costs, significant carbon emission and unexpected power outage, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) typically equip their Datacenters with a Power Supply System (DPSS) nurtured by m...
Provided By Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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University of Tennessee Knoxville Boosts Competitive Edge With Citrix Virtualization on Flexpod
The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, is one of the oldest public universities in the U.S. There challenge is to support anywhere, anytime student computing environment while conserving IT and ...
Provided By Cisco
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Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving Data Centres for Consolidation
With the lack of on-site resources, increasing demand for constant availability , and changes in the way equipment is deployed have heightened your day-to-day challenges and pressures with ensuring th...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Efficient Parallel Partition-based Algorithms for Similarity Search and Join with Edit Distance Constraints
The quantity of data in real-world applications is growing significantly while the data quality is still a big problem. Similarity search and similarity join are two important operations to address th...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Military-Standard Data Center Management
In the case of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) lives depend on it. There challenges were to make IT operations faster, better, and cheaper and move to greenfield data center without disr...
Provided By Cisco
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Heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Task Scheduling and Energy Management in the Smart Grid With Renewable Energy
The smart grid is the new generation of electricity grid that can efficiently utilize new distributed sources of energy (e.g., harvested renewable energy), and allow for dynamic electricity price. In ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Framework for High Performance Simulation of Transactional Data Grid Platforms
One reason for the success of in-memory (transactional) data grids lies on their ability to t elasticity requirements imposed by the cloud oriented pay-as-you-go cost model. In fact, by relying on in-...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Safeguarding the Status of Europe's Largest Port City
Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands, is also notable as the largest port in Europe. Their challenges are to assure future delivery of local government and port-based services and red...
Provided By Cisco
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Profit-Optimal and Stability-Aware Load Curtailment in Smart Grids
A key feature of future smart grids is demand response. With the integration of a two-way communication infrastructure, a smart grid allows its operator to monitor the production and usage of power in...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Markov Game Analysis for Attack-Defense of Power Networks Under Possible Misinformation
In this paper, the authors use zero-sum Markov games to model these interactions subject to underlying uncertainties of real-world events and actions. They solve equilibrium mixed strategies of the pl...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Scalable Solutions of Markov Games for Smart-Grid Infrastructure Protection
In this paper, the authors show that when the players' current interest is a subset of the states only and they are willing to accept small inaccuracies in the game solutions; many Markov game states ...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Supero: A Sensor System for Unsupervised Residential Power Usage Monitoring
As a key technology of home area networks in smart grids, fine-grained power usage monitoring may help conserve electricity. Several existing systems achieve this goal by exploiting appliances' power ...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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A High Performance and Low Power Hardware Architecture for H.264 Transform Coding
In the search for ever better and faster video compression standards H.264 was created. H.264 promises to be an excellent video format for use with a large range of applications and need for hardware ...
Provided By International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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Server Consolidation: An Approach to Make Data Centers Energy Efficient and Green
Data centers are the building blocks of IT business organizations providing the capabilities of centralized repository for storage, management, networking and dissemination of data. With the rapid inc...
Provided By International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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Extending a Method of Describing System Management Operations to Energy-Saving Operations in Data Centers
The authors propose a method for describing system management operations based upon patterns identified by analyzing operations in data centers. Combined with a CMS (Configuration Management System) d...
Provided By NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Assessment of Multi-Spectral Vegetation Indices Using Remote Sensing and Grid Computing
A primary goal of many remote sensing projects is to characterize the type, size and condition of vegetation present within a region. By combining data from two or more spectral bands the authors obta...
Provided By NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Tackling Co-existence and Fairness Challenges in Autonomous Demand Side Management
Consider a smart grid system in which every user may or may not choose to participate in Demand Side Management (DSM). This will lead to a general co-existence problem between participant and non-part...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Dynamic Replica Placement and Location Strategies for Data Grid
In data grid, replication data on multiple nodes can improve availability and response time. Yet determining when and where to replicate data in order to meet performance goals with many users and fil...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Novel Demand Control Policy for Improving Quality of Power Usage in Smart Grid
Smart grid has emerged as a promising technology for enabling bi-directional communication between the power company and its users to facilitate intelligent, robust, and resilient next generation powe...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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An Overview of Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation in Smart Metering Systems
Growing energy needs forces governments to look for alternative resources and ways of better energy grid management and load balancing. As a major initiative, many countries including the UK, the USA ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Throughtput Competitive Advance Reservation Using Polynomial Time
In response to the high throughput needs of grid and cloud computing applications, several production networks have recently started to support advance reservation of dedicated circuits. An important ...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Integrating Virtual Reality in Education Using Intranet Grids
In recent years there has been increase in diverse views in relation to the use of Virtual Reality (VR) to enhance learning and cognition. Besides, there has been significant growth in the use of 3D v...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Performance Evaluation Method Proposal for High Performance ICT Systems and Networks
In this paper, the authors present a predicted functional architecture of an emerging application of High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) application: the integrated manufacturing and m...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Comparative Study of High Performance Braun's Multiplier Using FPGAs
Multiplication is one of the essential operations in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications like Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Digital filters etc. With the advancements in technology, research ...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Introduction and Evaluation of Teleprotection Systems in Micro-Grids
A micro-grid is an aggregation of electrical and heat loads and small capacity micro-sources operating as a single controllable unit at the low or medium voltage level. Nowadays, digital telecommunica...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)
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Energy Efficiency in Data Centers: How to Reduce Power Consumption in Data Centers by Optimum UPS Loading
Computation and data center has a huge value to modern enterprise. This has resulted in the installation of millions of data centers in business around the globe. Historically, the cost to power and c...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)
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'Cool' Load Balancing for High Performance Computing Data Centers
As the people move to exascale machines, both peak power demand and total energy consumption have become prominent challenges. A significant portion of that power and energy consumption is devoted to ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Towards Intelligent Machine-to-Machine Communications in Smart Grid
The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) of Smart Grid (SG) presents the biggest growth potential in the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market today. Spurred by advances in the M2M technologies in recent ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Survey of Game Theoretic Approaches in Smart Grid
The concept of smart grid to transform the age old power grid into a smart and intelligent electric power distribution system is, currently, a hot research topic. Smart grid offers the merging of elec...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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CARPO: Correlation-Aware Power Optimization in Data Center Networks
Power optimization has become a key challenge in the design of large-scale enterprise data centers. Existing research efforts focus mainly on computer servers to lower their energy consumption, while ...
Provided By The Ohio Society of CPAs
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A New Approach to Grid Scheduling Using Random Weighted Genetic Algorithm with Fault Tolerance Strategy
Grid provides the user a huge amount of computational resources in a distributed manner, using which the authors can perform their tasks over these grid environments. These resources are geographicall...
Provided By West Bend Broadcasting, Inc.
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System Reliability of Fault Tolerant Data Center
A Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) in system operations is a weak point of system reliability. Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) of system operations is equal to the shortage component's MTTF in system. A Tie...
Provided By IARIA
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IaaS Clouds Vs. Clusters for HPC: A Performance Study
The increasing amount of data collected in the fields of physics and bio-informatics allows researchers to build realistic, and therefore accurate, models/simulations and gain a deeper understanding o...
Provided By IARIA
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Towards Green HPC Blueprints
Effectiveness and power consumption is becoming a major problem in high-performance computing. Numbers of researchers are working on methodologies in order to increase efficiency of these systems on h...
Provided By IARIA
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Numerical Methods for Solving Turbulent Flows by Using Parallel Technologies
Parallel implementation of algorithm of numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence is presented in this research. The Dynamic Smagorinsky model is appl...
Provided By Scientific Research
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Optimization of Security Communication Wired Network by Means of Genetic Algorithms
The realization of security wired network is very critical when the network itself must be installed in an environment full of restrictions and constrains such as historical palaces, characterized by ...
Provided By Scientific Research
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An Extension of RankBoost for Semi-Supervised Learning of Ranking Functions
The purpose of this paper was a semi-supervised learning method of alternatives ranking functions. This method extends the supervised RankBoost algorithm to combines labeled and unlabeled data. RankBo...
Provided By IARIA
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Reducing Electricity Cost of Smart Appliances Via Energy Buffering Framework in Smart Grid
To reduce the long term electricity cost of Smart Appliances (SAs) with deferrable operation time in smart grid, the authors propose a novel energy buffering framework to intelligently schedule the Di...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Exploiting Demand Response in Web-Based Energy-Aware Smart Homes
Energy conservation is a global issue with tremendous environmental implications. By 2030, the global energy demand will double. High demands and environmental concerns, force the transformation of el...
Provided By IARIA
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Using Multitasking and SSD Disks for Optimising Computing Cluster Energy-Efficiency
The authors tested how Solid-State Drives (SSD) and multitasking, i.e., running more than one task per CPU core, affect performance and energy consumption in I/O intensive data analysis jobs in High-E...
Provided By IARIA
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Optimization of Energy and Emissions in High-Performance Grid Computing Data Centres
At an early stage of information and communications technology and high-performance computing, performance and reliability were two important factors in research and development. It was highly essenti...
Provided By IARIA
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Sensors and IEDs Required by Smart Distribution Applications
In order to meet the electric energy needs at the beginning of this new millennium, utilities need to provide high quality power over a reliable grid, to satisfy customer's growing service quality exp...
Provided By IARIA
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Critical Friend Model: A Vision Towards Inter-Cooperative Grid Communities
Much work is under way within the distributed computing community in order to assign a job to an appropriate resource discovered from a fully decentralized and heterogeneous infrastructure with reason...
Provided By IARIA
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Towards Efficient Energy Management: Defining HEMS and Smart Grid Objectives
Energy consumption has increased considerably in the last years. The way to reduce and make energy consumption more efficient has become of great interest for researchers. One of the research areas is...
Provided By IARIA
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Jim Crosskey: How Does A Building Become A VERGE Building?
In this webcast, the presenter explains how building technologies are converging with information and energy technologies, even vehicles and to create high-performance buildings, at the San Francisco ...
Provided By GreenBiz Group
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Parallel Grid Library for Rapid and Flexible Simulation Development
The authors present an easy to use and flexible grid library for developing highly scalable parallel simulations. The distributed cartesian cell-refinable grid (dccrg) supports adaptive mesh refinemen...
Provided By University of Heilongjiang
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A New Degree of Freedom for Memory Allocation in Clusters
Improvements in parallel computing hardware usually involve increments in the number of available resources for a given application such as the number of computing cores and the amount of memory. In t...
Provided By SpringCM Inc
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Steps Toward Managing Lineage Metadata in Grid Clusters
The lineage of a piece of data is of utility to a wide range of domains. Several application-specific extensions have been built to facilitate tracking the origin of the output that the software produ...
Provided By Sri Durga Group