Grid computing

Fred Brooks is the first recipient of ACM Allen Newel Award. This award is presented as a token of honour to the individuals for their contributions in bridging Computer Science with other disciplines. In the article “The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith – II”, Brooks has given the opinion that Computer Science is probably not the best name that is coined for the discipline of computers which deals with solving problems for the users. Explaining the core difference between Science and Engineering…

My journey starts in Rwanda, a small country in East Africa. It started after I excelled in the national examination, an exam for high school students pursuing college admission, and got rewarded a scholarship to study college in the US. The experience I gained throughout my scholarship period, research, and background inspired me to pursue graduate studies. This goal has been an important reason for both my education and life pathways. In Rwanda, my country of birth, there is a presidential…

Money First is one of the largest banking institutions in the nation. The main goal of Money First is the satisfaction of their customers. This is a multi-facetted goal which includes the accepts of security and data backup. For the past 50 years, data has been increasingly being considered to be an asset to organizations. Therefore, organizations are becoming more concerned about data security strategies and backup management plans. Money First is no different. Customers expect their…

Nicholas Carr's article “All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines” gives much insight through his eyes on the world we live in today and the constant reliance on computers. This article looks into some major technological advancements of today and how these technologies have affected the role people play, and tan individual's abilities. One major technology that is evaluated in Carr’s article is autopilot and the risk it and technologies like it can cause. As…

Mark Weiser discover a brand new word “ubiquitous computing" around 1988, throughout his tenure as Chief engineer of the Xerox town research facility (PARC). each alone and with PARC Director and Chief somebody John Seely Brown, Weiser wrote a number of the earliest papers on the topic, mostly process it and sketching out its major issues. Recognizing that the extension of process power into everyday situations would necessitate understandings of social, cultural and psychological phenomena on…

Passport photos are usually used for many purposes. The most important of them all is to make ID cards. There are several ways through which this type of photograph can be produce. It can be taken directly or a full size photograph cropped. To crop a full size photo, one has to use passport photo software. Unlike in the past, now photographers do not have to take portrait sized photos so as to produce passport photographs. They can use a photograph of any size and produce the desired photo.…

4.3 Service Groups and Discovery Services: A service group can be defined as a collection of entries where each entry represents a grid service implementing the ServieGroupEntry interface. Each and every service will need some means for discovering services with particular properties. The ServiceGroup interface also extends the Grid service interface and there is a ServiceGroupEntry in each service of the group. There is ServiceLocator in each if these entries which contain the information…

Harland Bartholomew is one of the original municipal planners that influenced the city planning profession from 1914 to present day. Bartholomew’s influence and notability in city planning has three distinct areas (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas include the education of planning professionals, civil service at both the city and national level, and his private practice and advancement of a systematic comprehensive plan (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas tell a story of an individual that had…

Program in 2010. The main purpose of this technology was to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of metering customers' electricity usage. Saskpower completed its vendor procurements and selected Sensus for supply of meters and AMI technology and Grid One solutions for the installations. The first field testing began in 2012 in Hanley, SK. After that a lot of meters were installed. In 2014, over a period of three weeks eight meters caught fire. This incident halted the further installation…

Traditionally, power grid architectures were standalone systems that consisted of proprietary protocols traversing legacy hardware and software systems (Li et al., 2012). Power grid automation systems using this type of architecture carried high operating costs that power companies found to be inefficient over time (Kuder et al., 2010). Due to this inefficiency, power companies began to integrate the operation of power grid automation systems into public networks. This integration served its…