Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards that extends Web services and service-oriented architecture to the grid computing environment. OGSA definitions and criteria describe how ...

Siemens announced a Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM) which it is promoting as an open standards technical model for smart power generation, distribution and use. Siemens Infrastructure & Cities ...

Over the last decade, smart grid innovators have recognized the importance of an intelligent grid architecture while, over the same period, the electric power industry has been experiencing dramatic ...

Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on.

This grid currently utilizes 15,000 processor cores, primarily from the Opteron family of processors. Consolidating these cores into a centralized architecture allowed AMD to increase efficiencies, ...