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	British national grid reference system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ordnance Survey (OS) devised the national grid reference system, and it is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps (whether published by the Ordnance Survey or commercial map producers) based on those surveys.
		For the electric power transmission system in the UK, see National Grid.
		For example, the grid reference of the 100 m square containing the summit of Ben Nevis is NN 166 712.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_grid (1327 words)

	National Grid plc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		National Grid UK National Grid Company plc (NGC) was established as the owner and operator of the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales in 1990.
		Since privisation this company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of National Grid Group plc, (subsequently National Grid Transco and finally National Grid plc.) On July 26, 2005 NGC was renamed National Grid Electricity Transmission plc, but continues to be a subsidiary of National Grid plc.
		National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company with other operations, principally in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Grid_Company (421 words)

	Access Grid (www.accessgrid.org)
		The Access Grid® is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments.
		For example, the Access Grid (AG) is used for large-scale distributed meetings, collaborative work sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials, and training.
		The Access Grid thus differs from desktop-to-desktop tools that focus on individual communication.
	www.accessgrid.org (140 words)

	USNG UTILITIES
		The national grid will improve public safety, commerce, and aid the casual GPS user with an easy to use geoaddress system for identifying and determining location with the help of a USNG gridded map and/or a USNG enabled GPS system.
		Grid Coordinates A point position within the 100,000-meter square shall be given by the UTM grid coordinates in terms of its Easting (E) and Northing (N).
		Each GZD 6x8 degree area is covered by a specific scheme of 100,000-meter squares where each square is identified by two unique letters.
	www.ngs.noaa.gov /TOOLS/usng.html (273 words)

	Comments of National Grid USA on S7-05-01
		National Grid believes that the proposed rules should not undermine the flexibility of the Commission and its Staff to craft approvals, such as the March Order, that protect United States investors and customers while preserving the economic efficiencies of foreign and domestic investments.
		National Grid Group plc is a foreign holding company registered under the Act and is the indirect parent of National Grid USA, also a registered holding company.
		National Grid does not believe that there is a need to require filings when the pricing standards of Rules 90 and 91 are being observed.
	www.sec.gov /rules/proposed/s70501/ramsaue1.htm (755 words)

	1-Introducing the United States National Grid
		The objective of this U.S. National Grid standard is to create a more interoperable environment for developing location-based services within the United States and to increase the interoperability of location services appliances with printed map products by establishing a nationally consistent grid reference system as the preferred grid for NSDI applications.
		The United States National Grid is a nonproprietary alphanumeric referencing system derived from the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) that is being promoted to increase the interoperability of location services appliances with printed map products by providing a nationally consistent grid reference system.
		The U.S. National Grid is based on universally-defined coordinate and grid systems and can, therefore, be easily extended for use world-wide as a universal grid reference system.
	www.esri.com /news/arcuser/0705/usng1of2.html (988 words)

	Global Resource Information Database (GRID)
		GRID consists of a network of cooperating centers, coordinated from a Programme Activity Center at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and is supported through the UNEP Environment Fund, bilateral donors, individual national governments, and in-kind support from industry.
		GRID is an element of the Environment Assessment Division of UNEP and operates within the framework of programme element 5.4 "Environmental information services ".
		The activities of GRID complement those of Infoterra and the ENRIN s of the Assessment Division.
	www.unep.org /newdraft/unep/eia/ein/grid/home.htm (431 words)

	Italian Initiatives in Grid Computing
		Only a part of this project is related to grid computing; in particular, a work package is targeted to specify how to extend ASSIST in order to address heterogeneous platforms (eg, Grids); duration: 2 Years; budget: 2MEuro; status: at the end of the evaluation process by the CNR.
		The main goal of this project is to study, evaluate, and exploit grid computing technologies for the development of a new generation of scientific and business applications.
		GRID Computing - Enhanced Technologies and Applications for E-Science: this project, coordinated by CNR, involves 20 research groups belonging to: CNR (10), Universities (6), Public Administration (2), and Industry (2), respectively.
	www.ercim.org /publication/Ercim_News/enw45/codenotti.html (875 words)

	Learning and Teaching Scotland - NGfL Scotland
		The National Grid for Learning Scotland is a Scottish Executive initiative that funds and supports projects which bring the benefits of information and communications technologies (ICT) to learning, teaching and community development in Scotland.
		The most recent report is The National Grid for Learning Progress Report Three, published in March 2004 by SEED.
		A separate National Grid for Learning has been established for the rest of the UK.
	www.ngflscotland.gov.uk (271 words)

	WPI - Transformations: More Power to the National Grid
		National Grid USA, the holding company for National Grid Transco’s U.S. business, is one of the 10 largest utilities (by number of customers) in the country.
		Companies such as National Grid purchase the electricity and transmit it across high-voltage transmission lines to substations [there are over 500 in Massachusetts], where the voltage is typically reduced to 13,800 volts.
		At a National Grid substation are, from left, project team members Jack Coyne ’05, Anu Myne ’06, and Munaf Aamir ’07.
	www.wpi.edu /News/Transformations/2005Summer/investigations.html (1029 words)

	Grid Computing: General Information and Related Projects
		The National Computational Science Alliance is working to prototype a seamless, integrated computational and collaborative environment called the National Technology Grid, comprised of a computational grid (infrastructure oriented) and an access grid (people oriented).
		The Scalable Intracampus Research Grid (SInRG) project will deploy a research infrastructure on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus that mirrors the underlying technologies and the interdisciplinary research collaborations that are characteristic of the emerging national technology grid.
		Grids are persistent environments that enable software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations.
	www.terena.nl /middleware/grid-general.html (837 words)

	Nature Web Matters > Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid
		Grid computing concepts were first explored in the 1995 I-WAY experiment, in which high-speed networks were used to connect, for a short time, high-end resources at 17 sites across North America.
		The result will be integrated Grids in which problems of different types can be routed to the most appropriate resource: dedicated supercomputers for specialized problems that require tightly coupled processors and idle workstations for more latency tolerant, data analysis problems.
		No formal standards process as yet exists for Grids (the Grid Forum is working to create one).
	www.nature.com /nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html (1663 words)

	WPI Corporate Education - National Grid: A Power Systems Leader
		National Grid, a global leader in the management of electricity delivery systems and telecommunications networks, asked WPI to develop a graduate certificate program to help its employees improve their technical and management skills.
		And last, National Grid wanted to offer the same educational experience to employees in varying geographical locations.
		There were several issues that WPI addressed in creating a program for National Grid.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Corporate/Studies/grid.html (296 words)

	Features Item : The British Are Coming: National Grid Plugs into US, Other Deals May Follow
		Roger Urwin, the chief executive of National Grid, has made it clear that the group's growth is now centered on its North American operations, according to the news report.
		In fact, the National Grid/Lattice merger is an important step in any U.S. expansion plans because any large bid from National Grid, without the merger, would have put National Grid beyond the debt-to-equity limits set by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
		National Grid has already acquired Niagara Mohawk in a $3-billion merger that received final approval on January 16, 2002.
	www.energyusernews.com /CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,2584,77721,00.html (506 words)

	National Grid plc - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		National Grid also operates the UK natural gas transmission and distribution system through its Transco subsidiary, and it has international electric and gas utility operations, primarily through subsidiary National Grid USA.
		Gridlock is a good thing for National Grid (formerly National Grid Transco), which has a lock on the UK's power and gas grids.
		There are 13 competitors for National Grid; see more.
	www.hoovers.com /national-grid/--ID__93629--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (367 words)

	Business Wire: It's Official -- NEES/National Grid Merger is C... @ HighBeam Research
		National Grid USA is in the process of acquiring Eastern Utilities Associates, a neighboring electric utility serving customers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
		National Grid USA, with Sergel at its helm as president and chief executive officer, will serve as the base of North American operations for National Grid Group.
		The merger between The National Grid Group plc (National Grid) and New England Electric System (NEES) is complete, and NEES officially has been renamed National Grid USA, according to Rick Sergel, president and chief executive officer of National Grid USA.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:60517180&refid=ink_tptd_g1 (582 words)

	National Grid Transco
		National Grid Transco’s first half turnover fell by 6.1% to £3.8bn largely due to a reduction in reported earnings from the US electricity distribution business.
		Full year turnover at National Grid Transco was down 4.0% to £8.5bn with operating profits (before exceptionals and goodwill) flat at £2.2bn.
		Electricity and telecoms company National Grid said operating performance for the six months to September 2005 has been good.
	investmentideas.co.uk /research/national_grid_transco (171 words)

	National GPS Network information: the National Grid map reference system
		National Grid references are a compact way of stating the easting and northing coordinates of any point in Great Britain.
		The National Grid is the map reference system used on all OS mapping to record the position of any feature.
		The National Grid covers the whole of Great Britain and is designed to be as easy to use as possible.
	www.gps.gov.uk /natgrid/introduction.asp (151 words)

	Cognos Customer Successes: National Grid
		National Grid's previous post-event analysis information systems, replaced by the new system, ran on a mixture of stand-alone databases on a variety of platforms, provided less user-interaction and needed greater resources to maintain and support.
		National Grid continuously balances power supplied from generating stations and other network interconnections with the power requirements of the distribution companies and large industrial customers.
		The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Grid Group plc that is listed on the New York and London stock exchanges and is one of the UK's FTSE 100 companies with an annual turnover in excess of £3.8 billion in 2000/2001.
	www.cognos.com /company/success/nationalgrid.html (1088 words)

	Citrix Systems » National Grid Transco plc Citrix Case Studay
		National Grid Transco plc is an international energy delivery business, whose principal activities are in the regulated electricity and gas industries.
		During the process of expanding operations in North America, National Grid’s U.S.-based IT team was faced with the challenge of interconnecting its offices throughout the New England and New York area.
		Using MetaFrame XPe, National Grid’s U.S.-based IT team is able to deploy over 60 applications to over 600 users in many locations throughout New England and New York.
	www.citrix.com /English/aboutCitrix/caseStudies/caseStudy_print_p.asp?storyID=6412 (546 words)

	National Grid Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		National Grid Company plc (NGC) was established on 31 March 1990 as the owner and operator of the high voltage transmission system in England and Wales.
		The National Grid Company plc assumed ownership and control of the transmission system and joint ownership of the interconnectors with Scotland and France, together with the two hydroelectric pumped-storage stations in north Wales, but these stations were subsequently sold off.
		The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Grid Transco, which is listed on the stock exchange and is one of the UK's FTSE 100 companies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Grid_Company (546 words)

	National Grid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In England and Wales the grid was developed by the CEGB and since privatisation has been owned and operated by the National Grid Company.
		It began operating in 1933 as a series of regional grids with auxiliary interconnections for emergency use, but by 1938 the grid was operating as a national system.
		The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network in Great Britain, interconnecting power stations and major substations and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere in Great Britain can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Grid (546 words)

	BELNET Grid Initiative : about multi-gigabit national network computing
		Several grid projects have been started up in the context of the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission and a lot of countries have already set up a national computational grid.
		In the meanwhile this initiative gave birth to a pilot grid infrastructure called BEgrid.
		Grid computing has become a hot item in the whole IT world.
	grid.belnet.be (107 words)

	IEEE Distributed Systems Online
		National Grid Service : JISC and CCLRC are funding a UK National Grid Service (NGS) comprising of two data clusters and two compute clusters.
		Grid computing is becoming a mainstream, and in some cases even standard, tool within large-scale IT environments.
		Successful realization of the Grid vision of a broadly applicable and adopted framework for distributed system integration, virtualization, and management requires the support for configuring Grid services, their deployment, and managing their lifecycle.
	dsonline.computer.org /gc (1426 words)

	National Grid - Jobs, Corp Human Resources (HR) Recruiting Information: Vault
		National Grid employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on specific employers.
		Employee Workplace: National Grid USA is owned by National Grid Transco, a huge company based in the U.K. that owns and...
		Interview & Recruiting: I was hired from one of the companies that National Grid bought during the last few years, and was...
	www.vault.com /jobs-company/NationalGrid.html (159 words)

	IBM selected to provide key technologies for masive U.K. Computing and Data Grid
		The UK National Grid Center is located in Edinburgh/Glasgow, and there will be eight regional centers located at the universities of Oxford, Newcastle, Belfast, Manchester, Cardiff, Cambridge, Southampton and Imperial College, London.
		The National Grid will be created as part of the e-Science Core Programme, which is overseen by the British Government's Office of Science and Technology.
		The British government, through the Office of Science and Technology, is building the National Grid for collaborative scientific research in a wide spectrum of disciplines.
	www-1.ibm.com /servers/eserver/pseries/news/pressreleases/2001/aug/grid.html (965 words)

	China to build national computing grid Tech News on ZDNet
		When the grid is completed, the MOE expects it to have performance of more than 15 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second, making it one of the world's most powerful high-performance computing grids, according to a statement from Intel.
		The grid will be used for work in life sciences, the petroleum industry, earthquake research and commercial financial projects.
		The universities linked to the grid will be connected by the high-speed Internet-based China Education and Research Network.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-5082097.html (317 words)

	Access Headlines: Alliance to prototype National Technology Grid
		During the next five years, NSF will provide the Alliance with up to $170 million to support its efforts to prototype a national computational infrastructure called the National Technology Grid.
		The Grid will enable the science and engineering community to reap the benefits of rapidly improving high-performance computing and communications technologies and to make these developments available to broad sectors of society.
		The Alliance includes research partners from universities, national laboratories, industry, educational institutions, state and regional supercomputing centers, and associations of universities and states.
	archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /News/Access/Releases/97Releases/971001.prototype.html (525 words)

	Grids '98: Designing, Building, and Using a National-Scale Grid
		Grids '98 is a workshop focused on the technical and policy issues associated with the construction and use of a national-scale high-performance "grid."
		The goal of this panel/breakout group is to discuss the short-term steps that need to be taken to build usable national-scale (and international-scale) grids: in particular, the policies, standards, and technologies required to allow the sharing of resources located at different institutions and paid for in different ways.
		However, significant technical and political obstacles must be overcome before a national infrastructure is in place and in routine use.
	www-unix.mcs.anl.gov /grids98 (752 words)

	Wiley::Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality
		In the United States, the National Technology Grid is prototyping a computational grid for infrastructure and an access grid for people.
		Grid computing is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time
		The European Community (EU) is sponsoring a project for a grid for high-energy physics, earth observation, and biology applications.
	www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470853190.html (423 words)

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