One of the fundamental challenges of the grids that GigaSpaces operates in is the management of a large pool of servers, the data processing jobs they are assigned, and the results they return.
It said the success of the initial project had enabled it to offer additional power to other members of the Southern African Power Pool, which is one of the largest interconnected grids in the world and links the power networks of nine countries in southern Africa.
Almost all of the electricity moved over grids is in the form of alternating current.
Engineers believe that the engine probably shut itself off when it was first started because of metallic grit or other contamination between the two high-voltage grids at the rear of the advanced engine.
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"It was more powerful than the famous March 6, 1989 flare which was related to the disruption of the power grids in Canada, " said Paal Brekke, a project scientist with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
In such a gamble do the planners even care about minor disruptions to power grids in the rest of the world?
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Designed by Toro's firm, the space is lit by grids of Edison lightbulbs, contrasting with the dark wooden tables and the gently glowing bar.
The most promising applications of mHealth for now are public-health messaging, stitching together smart medical grids, extending the reach of scarce health workers and establishing surveillance networks for infectious diseases.
Ever since the first town planners pored over drawings of grids in the Indus Valley, man has wanted to locate points by how far over and up they were.
These training sessions and other publicity programs have engendered sufficient interest among faculty and students on the use of grid computing technology, however, the low bandwidth challenges being experienced by the University as well as non linkage to existing grids has limited the use of the technology by faculty and students.
The destruction they could cause to the world's unprotected grids could run to the trillions of dollars to repair and the loss of countless lives.
Boucher acknowledged that more needed to be done, but pointed out progress in construction of roads and electricity grids in parts of the country.
According to reports, the plan calls for creating three types of forces under the Cyber Command: protecting computer systems that involve electrical grids and other kinds of infrastructure, offensive operations overseas as well as protection of the defence department's internal systems.
He likes to superimpose a trelliswork of latinate formulations (grids of the apodictic, the epistemological, the asymptotic) upon the subject at hand.
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Buckwald confirmed that the sensors can be mobile (i.e: attached to the body) and grids of sensors can be moved in relation to a moving body.
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The company provides hardware, software and services for connecting utilities with devices on a power grid, including advanced metering and faster detection of outages and tools to improve the reliability of electrical grids.
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Like microgeneration, the idea of such "smart grids" has been circulating in the energy community for some time.
The ultimate point of smart grids, however, is to allow dynamic pricing, with electricity charges fluctuating in response to demand.
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Smart grids are at the fulcrum of the emerging low-carbon economy.
National Grid operates the UK's national electricity and gas grids, as well as four of the country's eight regional gas distribution networks.
And in any case, the kinds of battery chemistry one uses for cars and the grids are different.
There had been additional benefits to the mini-grids giving people ownership of their power, Dr Karmacharya pointed out.
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There is also a possibility of functional collapse of grids beyond the exposed area, as electrical effects propagate from one region to another.
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Life outside of the urban power grids was pretty restrictive.
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Many experts say that while it is important to address the immediate issues that may have caused the blackouts, such as the overdrawing of power by some states from region grids, it also is equally vital for India to address the underlying problem: a system that is still largely government-run isn't getting the job done.
On November 13th he called for a nine-point European pact on the future of employment, including crash programmes to expand power grids and to festoon the countryside with broadband networks.
Many of the victims' families fear that amid the talk of office space, building design, street grids, transit hubs and financing, their voices are becoming fainter.
Renewables such as windmills promote trade and market integration by prodding governments to link up national grids, says Peter Brun of the Danish wind-energy firm, Vestas.
Movement between grids snap to each zone, marking the end of a page.
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