The Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security have pledged to collaborate with NSF to fund and manage the power grid effort.
CEO Jonathan Schwartz has hinted in recent months of some wood behind what Sun calls its Grid effort, and will this week roll out Sun's JavaFX 1.0 front end technology to compete with Flash/Air and Silverlight.
Some of Cisco's effort involves repurposing and repackaging existing products, like Internet routers, so they can sit on top of utility poles or outside on the ground near other parts of the grid, said Lin, who is in charge of overall business and product strategy for Cisco's smart-grid efforts.
Scarcity of capital has been a barrier to both on-grid and off-grid electrification efforts and governments have sought private sector participation in an effort to close this gap.
Despite the growing anxiety, the government and the private sector have had trouble coordinating their grid protection efforts.
Reliability remains a fundamental principle of grid modernization efforts, but in today's world, reliability requires cybersecurity.
Using a system analysis approach based on quantitative measures of level of automation, we provide an illustrative analysis of select grid modernization efforts.
The scheme is expected to have a broad impact on computational problems related to design optimization as well as error estimation and grid adaptation efforts.
Two rounds of layoffs occurred in 2012 and 2013 as part of CityGrid's efforts to "streamline".
It is our belief that the work in this paper can complement existing Grid computing efforts by facilitating access to data storage system not inherently available via commonly used Grid computing standards.
