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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Top 10 Mistakes in Data Centre Operations - Operating Efficient and Effective Data Centres
How can you avoid making major mistakes when operating and maintaining your data centre(s)? The key lies in the methodology behind your operations and maintenance program. All too often, companies put...
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Data Centre 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 centre physical infrastructure (DCPI). No longer are simpl...
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Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers (duplicate 1- offline)
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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Data Center Projects: Standardized Process
As the design and deployment of data center physical infrastructure moves away from art and more toward science, the benefits of a standardized and predictable process are becoming compelling. Beyond ...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms
Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. Whether the data center mess is create...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers
Rack power of 10 kW per rack or more can result from the deployment of high density information technology equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult cooling challenges in a data center e...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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High Volume Computing: Identifying and Characterizing Throughput Oriented Workloads in Data Centers
For the first time, this paper systematically identifies three categories of throughput oriented workloads in data centers: services, data processing applications, and interactive real-time applicatio...
Provided By Cornell University
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Greening Data Center Networks with Throughput-guaranteed Power-aware Routing
Cloud based applications and services require high performance and strong reliability provided by data center networks. To overcome the problem of traditional tree based data center network, recently ...
Provided By Tsihai
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On Graphs, GPUs, and Blind Dating a Workload to Processor Matchmaking Quest
Graph processing has gained renewed attention. The increasing large scale and wealth of connected data, such as those accrued by social network applications, demand the design of new techniques and pl...
Provided By University of Bristol
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KSM Attains 95% Faster Access to Customer Records With VMware on FlexPod From NetApp and Cisco
At Katz, Sapper & Miller (KSM), supporting growth and efficient business management are top priorities. Their challenges are to scale with rapid company expansion by upgrading storage and server infra...
Provided By Cisco
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Layout-Conscious Random Topologies for HPC Off-Chip Interconnects
In this paper the authors propose two new methods for generating random topologies and their physical layout on a floor-plan: randomize links after optimizing the physical layout, or optimize the layo...
Provided By University of Hawai'i
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Resource Provisioning Based on Preempting Virtual Machines in Distributed Systems
Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in large-scale distributed systems such as federated Grids. Recently, many resource management systems in these environments have started to use the...
Provided By John Wiley & Sons
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Resource Provisioning based on Preempting Virtual Machines in Resource Sharing Environments
Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in large-scale resource sharing environments such as federated Grids. Recently, many resource management systems in these environments have started ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Three Dimensional Dual Queue based Matchmaking for Resource Allocation in Grid Environment
Grid computing methodologies facilitate resource sharing and coordination of problem solving in distributed systems. In the Grid environment, shared resources and users typically span different organi...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Applying AHP Technique for Trust Evaluation in the Semantic Web
The increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raises the issue of trust. Through the development of semantic Web, one major difficulty is that, by its ve...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Gravitational Search Algorithm for Finding Near-optimal Base Station Location in Two-Tiered WSNs
In designing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the main issue is limited resource for each sensor. Hence, offering ways to optimize energy consumption in WSNs which eventually increases the network lif...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Legal Feasibility of Automated Data Collection for Statistical Purposes in the EU
Internet-based measurement is using Internet as source of data gathering and it is a method of automated data collection. The three most common Internet-based measurement approaches are user-centric, ...
Provided By Brunel University
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Chirp: A Practical Global Filesystem for Cluster and Grid Computing
Traditional distributed file system technologies designed for local and campus area networks do not adapt well to wide area grid computing environments. To address this problem, the authors have desig...
Provided By University of Northern Iowa
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Towards Symmetric Multi-Threaded Optimistic Simulation Kernels
In this paper, the authors address the reshuffle of the design of optimistic simulation kernels in order to t multi-core/multiprocessor machines. This is done by providing a reference optimistic simul...
Provided By University of Rochester
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Security, Fault Tolerance and Modeling of Grid Workflows in BPEL4Grid
BPEL is the de facto standard for business process modeling in today's enterprises and is a promising candidate for the integration of business and scientific applications that run in Grid or Cloud en...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Design and Implementation of Computation Grid, Measure & Improve Performance Parameter:-A Survey
The goal of this Paper is to develop Reliable Communication System in the Grid. The first initiative is to apply multi-casting features to this protocol & the algorithm for the same is developed. Then...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Scheduling in Grid Computing
As the technology advances and the importance and dependence on internet increases by the day, there is need of finding faster and cheaper solutions to solve computational problems. This has lead the ...
Provided By IJCSMR
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The FPGA Implementation of Pulse Width Modulation
Most of the physical systems applications require a real-time operation to interface high speed restraints. The simple and common way to implement these systems is to realize it as a software program ...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Smart Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling in Grid
This paper proposes a smart Bacterial Foraging optimization Algorithm an intelligent exploitation of biologically inspired group foraging behavior of Escherichia coli (E-Coli) present in the human int...
Provided By EuroJournals
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A Grid Computing Service for Power System Monitoring
Extensively interconnected power grid has been a long cherished dream of the power system engineers. Recently, the incredible publicity of smart grid has brought about a revolution in the way the powe...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Information Aggregation Techniques in Different Networks
Due to the different evolutions in science and engineering, problems in computation fields are becoming complicated. In-order to solve these problems, the authors needs to combine and use the computer...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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A New Approach for Dynamic Job Scheduling in a Volunteer Desktop Grid
Nodes in a volunteer desktop grid are based on the volunteer participation of desktop nodes owned by the individual users. The volunteer nodes contribute their idle resources for public execution duri...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Advance Reservation Based DAG Application Scheduling Simulator for Grid Environment
In the last decade, scheduling of Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) application in the context of Grid environment has attracted attention of many researchers. However, deployment of Grid environment requi...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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A Science Gateway - MOWIC: Modern Web Interface for Cluster
High performance computing has been developed over the years providing researchers with the most powerful computational machines available at a given time. The National Science Foundation, which direc...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Job Scheduling in Grid Computing with Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm
Computational grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, inclusive and credible to other computing capabilities. Grid computing intercommunicated with a set of computatio...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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A New Hybrid Algorithm to Solve the Task Scheduling Problem in Grid Computing
The new generation of networks, distributed systems, grid computing, which allows users to share files and Users need to use different sources to provide. Grid computing system as one of the competing...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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An Evaluation of Job Scheduling Strategies for Divisible Loads on Grid Platforms
In this paper, the authors study distributed job scheduling in grid environments when each job is a DL application. The scheduling goal is to minimize the average steady-state job turnaround time. In ...
Provided By University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu
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Adaptive Scheduling Solution for Grid Meta-Brokering
The nearly optimal, interoperable utilization of various grid resources play an important role in the world of grids. Though well-designed, evaluated and widely used resource brokers have been develop...
Provided By University of Szczecin
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Multi-Grid Broker Utilization with the P-GRADE Portal
Grid computing has gone through some generations and as a result only a few widely used middleware architectures remain. The Globus Toolkit is the most widespread middleware in most of the current pro...
Provided By University of Szczecin
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Grid Interoperability by Multiple Broker Utilization and Meta-Brokering
As grid technology matures the number of production grids dynamically increases. The management and the optimal utilization of these grid resources cannot be handled by the users themselves. To hide t...
Provided By University of Szczecin
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Data Model for Describing Grid Resource Broker Capabilities
Since the management and the optimal utilization of the highly dynamic grid resources cannot be handled by the users themselves, various grid Resource Brokers have been developed, supporting different...
Provided By University of Szczecin
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A Novel Data Partitioning Approach for Association Rule Mining on Grids
Mining association rules refers to extracting useful knowledge from large databases. Algorithms of this technique are both data and computation-intensive, which make grid platforms very attractive for...
Provided By Tunir Software Services
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Towards Proactive Resource Management in Virtualized Datacenters
Proactive resource management involves taking actions to make resources available for upcoming load spikes. Proactive resource management is highly desirable for managing resources in a multitenant cl...
Provided By VMW Games
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An Interactive Graph-Based Automation Assistant: A Case Study to Manage the GIPSY's Distributed Multi-Tier Run-Time System
The GIPSY system provides a framework for a distributed multi-tier demand-driven evaluation of heterogeneous programs, in which certain tiers can generate demands, while others can respond to demands ...
Provided By Concordia University
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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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Application Fluency in the Data Center: A strategic choice for the data center network
Download the white paper, Application Fluency in the Data Center: A strategic choice for the data center network, to see how Alcatel-Lucent Mesh can help your data center finally meet the need for low...
Provided By Alcatel Lucent Enterprise
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Network Infrastructure for the Cloud Ready Data Center
Virtualization and distributed applications are transforming every part of the data center. To maximize the potential of virtualization, the network must also transform. The transformation of data ce...
Provided By Alcatel Lucent Enterprise
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Searching for Software on the EGEE Infrastructure
Several large-scale Grid infrastructures are currently in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources, a wide variety of application software, and hundre...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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Grid Resource Ranking Using Low-Level Performance Measurements
This paper outlines a feasible approach to ranking Grid resources based on an easily obtainable application-specific performance model utilizing low-level performance metrics. The Grid resources are c...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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Fault-Management in P2P-MPI
The authors present in this paper a study on fault management in a grid middleware. The middleware is their home-grown software called P2P-MPI. This framework is MPJ compliant, allows users to execute...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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Failure Data-Driven Selective Node-Level Duplication to Improve MTTF in High Performance Computing Systems
This paper presents the authors' analysis of the failure behavior of large scale systems using the failure logs collected by Los Alamos National Laboratory on 22 of their computing clusters. They note...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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Integrating Scheduling and Replication in Data Grids With Performance Guarantee
Data Grid consists of geographically distributed computing and storage resources that are used in large scale scientific applications. Job scheduling and data replication are two well-known techniques...
Provided By Wichita Collegiate School
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Automated Tagging for the Retrieval of Software Resources in Grid and Cloud Infrastructures
A key challenge for Grid and Cloud infrastructures is to make their services easily accessible and attractive to end-users. In this paper, the authors introduce tagging capabilities to the Minersoft s...
Provided By University of Cumberlands
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Integrating Web-Enabled Energy-Aware Smart Homes to the Smart Grid
Energy conservation is a global issue with great implications. High energy demands and environmental concerns force the transformation of electricity grids into smart grids, towards more rational util...
Provided By University of Cumberlands
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On the Impact of Packet Spraying in Data Center Networks
Modern data center networks are commonly organized in multi-rooted tree topologies. They typically rely on equal-cost multipath to split flows across multiple paths, which can lead to significant load...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Crypto System Based Authentication Using CSTA in Grid
Grid computing, as a distributed computing model, stands for the new kind of systems that pools heterogeneous computational resources, such as computers, storage space, sensors, application software, ...
Provided By University College of Dublin
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On Achieving Low Latency in Data Centers
Today's data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency for online services such as web search, social networking, and recommendation systems. Achieving low latency is important as it im...
Provided By University of Pitesti
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Minimizing Flow Completion Times in Data Centers
For provisioning large-scale online applications such as web search, social networks and advertisement systems, data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency for short flows (that resu...
Provided By University of Pitesti
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High Performance Hardware Operators for Data Level Parallelism Exploration
Many microprocessor vendors have incorporated high performance operators in a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) fashion into their processors to meet the high performance demand of increasing mu...
Provided By NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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10 must-read silicon.com Cheat Sheets
This exclusive e-book contains 10 of our must-read cheat sheets covering some of the most important issues facing business and technology professionals today, from cloud computing, IPV6 and Office 365...
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HybridMR: A Hierarchical MapReduce Scheduler for Hybrid Data Centers
Virtualized environments are attractive because they simplify cluster management, while facilitating cost-effective workload consolidation. As a result, virtual machines, either in public clouds or in...
Provided By Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
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Sustainable Investment Strategies For Aging Distribution Networks
Distribution system profitability is at risk from decreasing network fees. To meet financial targets, distribution system operators are thus obliged to curtail their re-investment, operation and maint...
Provided By CIRED
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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...
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