To get cloud computing to work, you need three things: thin clients (or clients with a thick-thin switch), grid computing, and utility computing.

实现云计算需要三个部分：瘦客户机(或者能够在胖瘦之间切换的客户机)、网格计算和效用计算。

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Monitoring Web service to switch to IPv6 from IPv4 in the grid depends on how unused resources are harnessed in the workstations participating in the grid.

监视 Web 服务在网格中从 IPv4 到 IPv6 的切换取决于如何在参与网格的工作站中利用未使用的资源。

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The dispatch order is how grid operators decide which power plants to switch on.

调度指令是指电网运营商如何确定哪些发电厂应该启动。

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For example, the New York State Public Service Commission includes customers who agree to switch from grid-provided electricity to power provided from onsite generation to receive incentive payments under most DSM programs.

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There are further cost issues in upgrading the national grid to cope with power surges and the need to switch between different power sources.

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On the other hand, this conflation makes far more sense in the long term, as our electrical grid becomes more sophisticated, and as electric vehicles begin the inevitable switch from internal combustion engines to electric motors or some other renewable source of power.

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