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- Grid
- (1) Any interconnected set of nodes such as the electric power network or a communications network.
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- 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
- Sudoku (exe)
- Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 - 9. In options you can change color of numbers and grid. Also you can select the level soft, medium or hard. This version is the first release on CNET...
- Tags: Grid, Aruemmler
- Software downloads 2008-04-18
- 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
- IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1
- The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...
- Tags: Failover, Grid, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Storage Management, Mainframes, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Storage, Servers
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Championship Grid Graw (exe)
- Create Official Speedway New Zealand Grid Draws. Determine grid positions for speedway events according to Speedway New Zealand championship regulations. Produce HTML & printed Grid Draws for race meetings. Save and edit event starting information. Championship Grid Draw is designed to conform to Speedway New Zealand Regulations G13-7-3 and G13-8-1....
- Tags: Grid, Computer, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-03-26
- The server with the windmill on top
- Wind farms and server farms, energy-efficient couple. That's according to a study from a British academic. The study concludes that in-house servers should give way to server farms co-loated in remote areas where wind or solar or other alternative energy can be generated. "There's something...
- Tags: Server Farm, Grid, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Hybrid cars and the power grid
- Hybrid cars and the power gridHybrids AREN'T "plugable" carsThere aren't any "plugable" hybrids in the market. A few people may add some extra batteries that may require a plug, but that is not a standard vehicle. The only "plugable" cars in the market are 100% electric (with only a max...
- Tags: kW, Hybrid-car, power grid, plug-in, grid, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Hybrid cars and the power grid
- Today, people who care about the environment are attracted by hybrid electric cars. But in 2020, hybrid cars and trucks might represent 25% of all the vehicles in the U.S. Of course, these vehicles will need to be plugged to the power grid to recharge their batteries. A recent Oak...
- Tags: Consumer, Car, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Grid, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- SAS Grid 101: How It Can Modernize Your Existing SAS Environment
- Grid computing promises many benefits, including improved performance of applications, higher resource utilization, lower cost of ownership, and flexibility for one's IT infrastructure. Many of the user's are evaluating grid computing to assess its relevance and value for the organization. This paper helps one by addressing two topics, "What business...
- Tags: Environment, SAS Institute, Grid Computing, Grid
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Data Integration in a Grid-Enabled Environment
- SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Grid Manager add capabilities to the SAS product suite to distribute workloads across a grid of computers and thereby allow large processes to complete more quickly than previously possible. SAS Grid Manager has been incorporated into SAS Data Integration Studio to facilitate using grid...
- Tags: Environment, SAS Institute, Grid, Data Integration, SAS Grid Manager
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Enabling Virtualized Grids With Oracle and NetApp
- Oracle Grid architectures are absorbing new technologies and are continuing to evolve. The recent introduction of Oracle VM for advanced server virtualization, in combination with storage virtualization features of NetApp such as FlexVol, FlexClone, and FAS deduplication, make it possible to significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., NetApplications.com, Grid, NetApp, Oracle Grid Architecture, Storage, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Off the grid: energy independence in the real world
- Courtesy: Builidng With Awareness and Ted Owens. Forget the campaign year political slogans. "Energy independence." Out in the real world, designers and engineers are making real headway in building homes and work spaces that are off the grid, and in some cases water...
- Tags: Grid, Energy, Home, Ted Owens, BWA, Colorado Court, Corporate Communications, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Three risk categories that explain IT failure
- A new white paper from Alpha Software describes three broad categories of risk that explain why software projects fail: Process failures arise when a project is "bumped off track," relative to the expected plan. If the goal of a process is to produce a specific outcome,...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Grid, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Scalable, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture Using Oracle Coherence
- One of the greatest benefits of a service-oriented architecture SOA grid is that the cost of scalability is more predictable and efficient because of the option of using commodity hardware. This makes an SOA grid a highly efficient architecture that increases business agility and reliability.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SOA, Grid, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Sudoku Time for Windows (exe)
- With Sudoku Time, you can have all your family plays as a separate user in the same game. You can choose from three different types of grid sizes and practice the game that fits exactly your current skills. If you are kid or just want to play something easy then...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Grid, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-01-23
- Grid is 'the new ESB,' and a warning about Web 2.0 interfaces
- David Chappell the SOA Oracle of Oracle issued his predictions for the market over the coming year, and says that grid computing will be hot, hot hot. But, he cautions, "the definition of grid will be as fuzzy as ESB [Enterprise Service Bus], " given "the various concepts of hardware...
- Tags: Web, SOA, Grid, David Chappell, Enterprise Service Bus, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Web Services, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouraging
- If this blog takes the form of a news story, that's because it kinda is. In some ways this is a phenomenon I've been writing about for years -- the fact that headless devices like sensors and meters and intelligent appliances will start driving more traffic on the Internet than...
- Tags: Homeowner, Grid, Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
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