Upgrading our grid can play an important role in moving towards these bold but achievable goals, as well as integrating renewable energy into the grid while also becoming better able to facilitate the wider use and charging of electric vehicles.

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In addition, since fire is a finer-grained and faster-moving phenomenon than weather, a finer grid is used for the fire model than for the atmospheric model each grid square is a few metres, rather than a few tens of metres, across.

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The NVIDIA GRID Platform builds on this capability by moving high-end gaming to the cloud, eliminating the need for consumers to manage game discs or fit game consoles next to flat-screen TVs.

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"If you think about the TV listing grid as a 2D experience, what we're moving to is a 3-D experience, " Ms. Tanner said.

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Today, we are increasingly moving towards more distributed forms of computing, including the use of grid and cloud computing infrastructures (also similar to what BU, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern and UMass are doing with the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center).

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It shows that Singapore is moving up the value-chain ladder and is staying plugged into the global electronics grid.

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