National Grid hit by pounds 900m charges

The Independent - London;  May 31, 2002 ;     401 words ...NATIONAL GRID, the owner of Britain's electricity transmission...year to 31 March. But they also enabled Grid to clear the decks ahead of its pounds 15bn...fibre optic network 186k. The biggest of the Grid write-downs was a pounds 383m charge to...

America's Power Needs - How the Grid Powers a Continent.(Brief Article)

World and I;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The Grid is the giant network of high-voltage power...and 3,000 miles from north to south. The Grid has three main sections. The eastern part...Mexico up to Canada. Most of Texas is on a grid of its own. (Back in the 1930s, Texas utilities...

The GRID Cometh Next 'cyberinfrastructure' to usher in faster tasking

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 7, 2003 ;     472 words ...The GRID Cometh Next 'cyberinfrastructure' to usher...information of every sort. Now comes the Grid, a third wave in the evolution of the cyberworld...located. Ultimately, supporters say, the Grid will be like having a supercomputer at your...

ONLINE GAMING INDUSTRY GETS A LOAD OF THE `GRID'

The Boston Globe;  November 3, 2002 ;     690 words ...Are you on the grid or off the grid? That's a question you may soon have to answer, particularly if you're involved with a start-up business, because the idea of "grid computing" is starting to spread. Just last week a small conference...

Regulator's cuts charge up National Grid shares

The Scotsman;  September 28, 2000 ;     525 words ...SHARES in National Grid, which runs the high-voltage electricity grid, shot up by 5 per cent after the electricity regulator...initially made in June to govern the charges National Grid can make to electricity companies for transporting their...

China's massive education grid.(Technote)

Software World;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of the largest implementations to date of Grid computing, IBM and China's Ministry of Education will use Grid technology to let universities across the...projects. The China Education and Research Grid is being launched with six universities...

A grid by any other name.

The Economist (US);  December 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Grid computing: It might be the next big thing in computing. But for now, grid computing's biggest problem is that nobody can agree what it is WHEN is a grid not a grid? It depends whom you ask. According to many in the computer industry...

ENSURING Supply Chain Data Quality

Energy Processing Canada;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...From the control room to the farmer's field, we have three stories - Ensuring Supply Chain Data Quality, Flexsorb For C02 Removal From an Acid Gas Stream and QuestAir Installs Methane Recovery System at Michigan...

Grid Computing: The Grid Is Going Mainstream Fast: The systems have come...

Bank Technology News;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Grid computing may still sound fringe to buttoned-down comptrollers...player like Cleveland's Ohio Savings starts talking about the grid, maybe it's not just for the space age any more. The firm...information manager, Tony Miller, says Ohio Savings is using a grid network now at the database level, running ...

The Grid becomes a reality.

M2 Presswire;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-1 September 2004-PPARC: The Grid becomes a reality(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...the world's largest, working computing Grid. With over 6,000 computers at 78 sites...internationally, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) is the first permanent, worldwide...

Ensuring supply of potable water

New Straits Times;  May 4, 2005 ;     409 words ...Ravi Nambiar New Straits Times 05-04-2005 Ensuring supply of potable water Byline: Ravi Nambiar Edition: Main/Lifestyle JOHOR BARU, Tues. - Johor, one of the country's richest sources of...

Moving from ivory tower to business frontline, slowly.(Grid Computing)

MSI;  May 1, 2004 ;     450 words ...Technology providers are touting grid computing as the next major tool for lowering IT costs. Grid computing works by putting the combined processing...tasks are directed to whatever portion of the grid--a specific CPU or storage device--that is best...

Top IT Decision Makers Shortlist Grid as Strategic IT Investment For 2004,...

PR Newswire;  March 4, 2004 ;     693 words ......PRNewswire/ -- IDC's UTILITY, ON-DEMAND, GRID COMPUTING CONFERENCE -- New survey results...released today by Platform Computing show that grid computing has emerged as the sixth highest...investment priorities for 2004, and learned that grid computing has escalated as a high priority...

Tangosol Announces Results of Data Grid Scalability Benchmark Effort With...

PR Newswire;  December 11, 2006 ;     665 words ......scalability of Tangosol Coherence Data Grid parallel processing SOMERVILLE, Mass...Intel, IBM, and Tangosol have completed grid-based benchmarks that demonstrate the linear...processing of data using Tangosol Coherence Data Grid running on a computing grid of 100 IBM...

FAU Joins IBM's Latin American Grid Computing Initiative.

PR Newswire;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Joining the Grid Generates More IT Opportunities for Hispanic Students BOCA RATON, Fla...today that it has become the 10th member of the IBM-led Latin American Grid (LA Grid), an effort to create professional IT opportunities for the Hispanic...