Cloud Computing for Power System Simulations at ISO New England - Experiences and Challenges

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2596-2603

  Ma, Feng ^a   Luo, Xiaochuan ^a   Litvinov, Eugene ^a  

^a ISO New England Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon Web service (AWS); Cloud computing; power system simulations; transmission planning; virtual private cloud (VPC)

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA PRIVACY; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PLANNING; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; WEB SERVICES;

AMAZON WEB SERVICES; CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; POWER SYSTEM PLANNING; POWER SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; PRIVATE CLOUDS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; TRANSMISSION PLANNING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84992712471     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2016.2569493     Document Type: Article

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