...Enbridge Load Balancing Concept: Deliver the MDV (Mean Daily Volume) for each pool on a daily basis. These numbers are provided to us by the utilities. A flat delivery profile with varying consumption results in imbalances. The idea here is to optimize those imbalances by using whichever balancing options result in the most positive/least negative financial impact. Monthly Documents & Meetings: 1. Load Balancing Strategy – Data available on the 9th of each month 2. Load Balancing Strategy Meeting 3. Load Balancing Summary – Check with finance for deadlines 4. Load Balancing SharePoint Update Models: RPMLoad BalancingModels LB Data Enbridge Economics ETT Cost Optimization Data Gathering: Note: Data needs to be gathered for each Master Source Agreement The following process will need to be completed for each MSA. 1. Log into Entrac. 2. Click on BGA Reporting on the left side of the screen. 3. In the drop down menu next to Pool Status, choose Active then hit search. 4. The search result will show a line for each Pool. Next to each Pool Name, select the radio button along with the Report Month and Year (at the bottom of the screen), then click Download. Do this for every pool. 5. Repeat step 3, with Pool Status Finalized. Repeat step 4. 6. Repeat step 3, with Pool Status Expired. Repeat Step 4. 7. Be sure to save Active and Expired files into a newly created BGA folder, and Finalized into another. Zip files and send to forecasting ...
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...bet on the chance that the Internet was going to change life, as we knew it. When the Internet was still in its infancy and known by everyone as the World Wide Web, they believed the Internet would catch fire quickly, and when it did, web servers would rapidly become overwhelmed, causing traffic to slow to a crawl. Based on this assumption, they developed the company’s first product, the F5 BIG-IP controller, a load balancer that distributed Internet traffic across multiple servers. BIG-IP kept websites up and running when servers failed or were overloaded, accelerated traffic, and provided some basic security features. In June 1999, the company went public as F5 Networks and was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (NASDAQ: FFIV). As it was in 1999, corporate focus in 2013 remains on providing network intelligence that enables customers to respond quickly to change, streamline business processes, reduce costs, and provide differentiated offerings that help increase revenue. Through internal development and acquisitions, F5 extended its reach beyond load balancing, producing a range of integrated products for Application Delivery Networking. These products seek to improve the delivery of web-based applications by attempting to make them run faster and more securely. F5 Networks is a leading provider of Application Delivery Networking (ADN) technology that secures and optimizes the delivery of network-based...
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...1 Approche Agent Mobile pour la réparation de charge dans les réseaux hétérogènes L. SAOUDI Résumé — Notre travail consiste à coupler l’approche agents mobiles au système de répartition de charge sur un réseau de stations de travail dynamique et hétérogène. La plate forme de répartition de charge conçue est semicentralisée : la collecte d’information est centralisée tandis que la redistribution de charge est distribuée, cette stratégie nous a permit de gagner l’autonomie de décision d’équilibrage et le temps de collecte d’information avec un réseau moins chargé. Pour assurer l’équité de répartition de charge sur une plate forme hétérogène, nous avons ajusté un algorithme d’estimation de charge, afin de trouver des charges comparables sur des plates formes hétérogènes. Notre plate forme se compose de quatre agents : Agent de collecte d’information : responsable de collecte d’information de charge de toutes les stations du réseau. Agent d’état: responsable du contrôle local de la charge d'une station. Agent d’équilibrage : responsable de la redistribution de charge. Agent de découverte : il inspecte et cherche à découvrir l’état réel du système. Un prototype de plate forme est implémentée sous la plate forme d’agents mobiles AGLET, qui va exploiter la machine virtuelle Java JikesRVM pour supporter la mobilité forte, et expérimenté par une application académique de multiplication parallèle de matrices de grand volume. Mots Clés—agent mobile, calcul distribué, Estimation...
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...The server load was affected by the increase in the demand or base load placed upon the network. This led to slow pings, increased network traffic, and a lot more collision domains. The network load was severely affected because on the increase in demand within the network. The network was also affected because of the addition of more nodes on the network the traffic is doubled. I would highly recommend the use of Network Load Balancing which scales the performance of a server-based programs and it also helps to evenly distribute the load and traffic through the network. Server load balancing should also be put into place into order to lighten the load that is on the servers. Strategic planning expansion should also be practiced because it is nice to come prepared for the worst instead of just crossing your fingers. I would setup the first server followed by the 30 nodes that I connected to the switch I then put a load onto the network and ran my tests, making sure that the results were positive. Next I would add an expansion onto the network so I added another switch and connected 15 nodes to that. Finally, I would re-run the networks test at which led to the increase in nodes which would put a much higher strain on the network and the server load in general. This looks all good on paper but unfortunately I was unable to complete all the steps. The creation of the network is a little more complicated and required much more pratice than I expected. I spent four hours trying to...
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...ILAB OFFICE NETWORK EXPANSION [pic] Analysis The server load was affected by the increase in the demand or base load placed upon the network. This led to slow pings, increased network traffic, and a lot more collision domains. The network load was severely affected because on the increase in demand within the network. The network was also affected because of the addition of more nodes on the network the traffic is doubled. I would highly recommend the use of Network Load Balancing which scales the performance of a server-based programs and it also helps to evenly distribute the load and traffic through the network. Server load balancing should also be put into place into order to lighten the load that is on the servers. Strategic planning expansion should also be practiced because it is nice to come prepared for the worst instead of just crossing your fingers. I would setup the first server followed by the 30 nodes that I connected to the switch I then put a load onto the network and ran my tests, making sure that the results were positive. Next I would add an expansion onto the network so I added another switch and connected 15 nodes to that. Finally, I would re-run the networks test at which led to the increase in nodes which would put a much higher strain on the network and the server load in general. This looks all good on paper but unfortunately I was unable to complete all the steps. The creation of the network is a little more complicated and required...
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...OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF CLOUD BY LOAD BALANCING (Research Proposal) Literature Review Recent days, cloud computing is an improving area in research and industry, which includes virtualization, distributed computing, internet, and web services. A cloud contains elements such as data centers, clients, distributed servers, internet which includes fault tolerance, high accessibility, efficiency, scalability, flexibility, reduced overhead for users, less cost of ownership, on demand services and etc. The main objectives of cloud are to reduce cost, enhance response time, and provide better performance. There are three types of cloud computing based on the service they provide. 1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Infrastructure as a service contains the basic building blocks for cloud and typically provide access to networking features, computers and data storage space. 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platforms as a service provides the feature to manage the infrastructure and allow to focus on the deployment and management of applications. 3. Software as a Service (SaaS) Software as a service provides with a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider. Cloud has many benefits all along with some fundamental problems to be resolved in order to improve Performance of cloud environment. These problems are associated with load management, tolerance and different security issues in cloud environment. Load balancing Load balancing is an important part of cloud...
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...Techniques of Load Balancing in Green Clouds Gaganjot Kaur* *M.Tech,IITT College of Engineering & Technology, Pojewal, Punjab Abstract — Cloud Computing can be defined as dynamically scalable shared resources that are completely accessed over a network and the users have to only pay for what they use and can share internally or with other customers as well. The majority of cloud computing infrastructure currently consists of reliable services delivered through data centers that are built on computer and storage virtualization technologies. The goal of a cloud-based architecture is to provide some form of elasticity, the ability to expand and contract capacity on-demand. The implication is that at some point additional instances of an application will be needed in order for the architecture to scale and meet demand. That means there needs to be some mechanism in place to balance requests between two or more instances of that application. The mechanism most likely to be successful in performing such a task is a load balancer. The aim of this paper is to discuss the existing techniques of load balancing and elaborate the main points of the techniques that are helpful in reduction of power consumption leading a step towards green clouds. Green Cloud is an Internet Data Center architecture which aims to reduce data center power consumption, and at the same time guarantee the performance from users’ perspective, leveraging live virtual machine migration technology. ...
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... 238 Cloud Load Balancing Techniques : A Step Towards Green Computing Nidhi Jain Kansal1, Inderveer Chana2 1 Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar University Patiala-147004, Punjab, India 2 Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar University Patiala-147004, Punjab, India Abstract Cloud computing is emerging as a new paradigm of large-scale distributed computing. It is a framework for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources. Load balancing is one of the main challenges in cloud computing which is required to distribute the dynamic workload across multiple nodes to ensure that no single node is overwhelmed. It helps in optimal utilization of resources and hence in enhancing the performance of the system. The goal of load balancing is to minimize the resource consumption which will further reduce energy consumption and carbon emission rate that is the dire need of cloud computing. This determines the need of new metrics, energy consumption and carbon emission for energy-efficient load balancing in cloud computing. This paper discusses the existing load balancing techniques in cloud computing and further compares them based on various parameters like performance, scalability, associated overhead etc. that are considered in different techniques. It further discusses these techniques from energy consumption and carbon emission perspective. Keywords: Cloud computing, Load balancing, Energy efficiency...
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...M3 This is the questionnaire which I had created in order to get feedback on what went well on my website and also any improvements that people might have suggested I do. D2 - Improve the effectiveness of a website on the basis of a client review After I got my feedback from the four people I had asked Karan had said that I should consider increasing the size of the images that I had used so that it could reduce the load time of the website, after I obtained this feedback I had then gone and done this by reducing the size of the images as displayed below: One bit of feedback that I had got from everyone is in relation to the size of the font because everyone said that I should increase the size of it because it was something which should have been bigger as it was difficult for them to read the text, therefore, after I had got this feedback I had gone back and increased the size of my text as displayed below: BEFORE AFTER I was also told by everyone that I should consider changing the colour of my text because it strained their eyes or it was hard for them to read because of the conflicting colours, after gaining this feedback I had then made the decision to go back and change the colour of my font to one which I believe is a lot easier to understand and does not strain the eyes, here is the new colour for the text that I had picked: I have chosen to go for a more turquoise colour for my font because I think that this colour conflicts less in comparison...
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...© Copyright 2013, First Solar, Inc. Key Messages • PV power plant is a cost-effective energy resource • Well designed “Grid Friendly” PV plant actively stabilizes grid and enhances its reliability • PV variability can be managed with existing grid infrastructure through forecasting and site diversity with minimum impact © Copyright 2013, First Solar, Inc. 2 First Solar — Utility Scale PV Plant Leader Over 3GW Completed or In Development (10MW AC – 550MW AC Plants) © Copyright 2013, First Solar, Inc. 3 Utility Scale PV Power Plant Overview PV Module Arrays Combiner Boxes 300 to 690V (AC) 1000V (DC) Inverters Transformers Photovoltaic Combining Switchgear Substation 34.5kV (AC) Typical 69 to 525kV (AC) Gen Tie-line Power Grid © Copyright 2013, First Solar, Inc. 4 PV Module PV Module Arrays 1000V (DC) © Copyright 2013, First Solar, Inc. 5 Combiner Box Combiner Boxes • Aggregates DC wiring from multiple strings (80KW-160KW) • Provides single dc output to inverter 1000V (DC) © Copyright 2013, First Solar, Inc. 6 Utility Scale Solar Plant Inverters Inverters • Converts DC power to AC (low voltage) • Grid Management Functions (LVRT, Reactive Power, etc.) 300 to 690V (AC) 1000V (DC) • UL1741 and IEEE1547 compliant © Copyright 2013, First Solar, Inc. 7 Transformer • Increases low AC voltage to medium Transformers 300 to 690V (AC) AC voltage for Collection System 34.5kV (AC)...
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...Challenges Faced By IKEA:- Here are some of the challenges I found from the case study- * I kea’s low valued products used excessive space on load units due to packaging design which resulted in poor efficiency in both transportation and warehouse operations that created unnecessary costs. * Involvement of suppliers was a challenge as solving the problem affects the packaging design as it affects the product design too as it got to adapt to the new packaging design where manufacturing processes are affected too. * To discover new ways to reduce unnecessary space in packaging without altering the product design. * Eliminate the problems related to filled air that takes a lot of unnecessary space during transportation and storage by finding out new methods for packaging. * Another challenge would be Increase in density of the packaging would create overload and to balance the load on the trucks is to use lightweight products to fill up the left over space. That is in short to Load balance the products of different volumes to fill transportation units in regard to both weight and volume. * For the above balancing scenario it is important to convince suppliers for a cluster supplier concept by storing one company’s product by another supplier in order to reduce space related problems. Strategic Implementation:- * Implementation of cluster supplier concept for Glimma tea candles where a major supplier of IKEA takes responsibility for storing...
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...Riordan Manufacturing: Supply Chain Design OPS/571 November 9, 2015 Riordan Manufacturing: Supply Chain Design: Riordan Industries is a Fortune 1000 company founded by Dr. Riordan in 1991. Riordan is a global plastics manufacturer that employs 550 people. The company has projected annual earnings of $46 million and continues to be the industry leader for the electrical fan; accomplished by several factors outlined. The first is the benefits of the production strategy outlined by the flow diagram and performance evaluations. The second benefit is their supplier relationship that impacts the supply chain including location, performance, and improvement strategies by those suppliers. The third benefit is Riordan’s lean production principles that maximize the efficiency of the electric fan's supply chain process. Riordan’s has a strong commitment to their future and focuses on this in their mission statement. The company must focus on maintaining reasonable profitability, which will help assure the necessary financial capital is available for continued growth ("Riordan Manufacturing," 2015). To meet this, they will need to continue to forecast from both the business perspective and sales. This management team has developed the aggregate production plan, master schedule, and materials requirement plans with emphasis on the inventory requirements of the fans components, finished goods, and the appropriate inventory system. Riordan Manufacturing Strategy Riordan’s...
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...Golden Corrugated Box (M) SDN BHD Executive Summary Golden Corrugated Box (M) SDN BHD will located in Beranang, which is in Selangor. Our company will call as Golden Corrugated Box (M) SDN BHD , it is because Golden means golden feature earn a lot of money whereas corrugated box is meant the type of the product. The mission of our company is committed to ensure customers' satisfaction by complying with their reasonable requirements and it also to achieve excellence in performance through continuous improvement on Quality Management System (QMS). Besides, our company is committed to be innovation and creative in product development and design. Our company also committed to the development of rigorous, wide-ranging skills and training program to maintain a competent workforce. In addition, our company is committed to the adoption and application of the most advanced technology and latest industrial automation. Next, our company is committed to care for the environment, workers’ welfare and industrial safety. Our company is also committed to fully support and adhere to the current government’s economic and financial policies. Our idea customers are more focus on factory. Our company will supply them a lot of carton boxes to packaging their product. For example some of the factory they buy for packaging their food to export to another country. We also hire high education level people to help us managing the company and we also have a lot of general work to continue our...
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...Packaging and purchase decisions ABSTRACT - The importance of packaging design as a vehicle for communication and branding is growing in competitive markets for packaged food products. This research utilized a focus group methodology to understand consumer behaviour toward such products and how packaging elements can affect buying decisions. Visual package elements play a major role, representing the product for many consumers, especially in low involvement, and when they are rushed. Most focus group participants say they use label information, but they would like it if simplified. The challenge for researchers is to integrate packaging into an effective purchasing decision model, by understanding packaging elements as important marketing communications tools. Propositions for future research are proposed which will help in developing better understanding of consumer response to packaging elements. Introduction: packaging at the point of sale Packaging seems to be one of the most important factors in purchase decisions made at the point of sale (Prendergast and Pitt, 1996), where it becomes an essential part of the selling process (Rettie and Brewer, 2000). Packaged food products are moving into ever larger supermarkets and hypermarkets, and there is a proliferation of products, offering consumers vast choice. The competitive context is ever more intense, both in the retail store and household. With the move to self-service retail formats, packaging increases its key characteristic...
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