Distributed Computing for Decentralization of Grids and for IoT: Resilience for Agents, RAS and Prosumers
Date/Time:	Fri 11/21/2025 at 8:00 AM
Location:	Las Vegas Embassy Suites by Hilton Las Vegas
Class Price:	$950.00
Notes:	More information on the class and instructor can be found at https://www.smartgridcomms.guru/ SCHEDULE 730-800 Optional light continental breakfast and coffee 0800-1000 Session 1 [CUM 2.0 hr] 1000-1015 Coffee break 1015-1200 Session 2 [CUM 3.75 hr] Lunch is served buffet style; instructor will eat quickly and resume... 1215-230 Session 3 [CUM 6.0 hr] 230-245 Soda/coffee break 245-445 Session 4 [CUM 8.0 hr] You will be provided a free day parking pass by email in the week or two before the class.

Computer networks get data from Point A to (multi-)Point B with some statistical properties: delay, drop rate, error rate, etc. Distributed computing, then, is one or more layers above the network that answers the question:

Now that we have this (inter)network, how do we best use it?

In part this means this: how do we help programmers program it a lot easier (really with a lot less difficulty: it’s still hard)?

It involves cooperating processes running on a network and communicating only by messages (e.g., no shared memory), in the face of different kinds of failures.  Those processes can copperate by replicating data, synchronizing, agreeing on a value or decision, and other things. It also includes the use of middleware, which eases the programming of distributed systems and is used extensively by virtually every other industry but hardly at all in the power sector.

The instructor, Dr. David Bakken, has been both teaching distributed computing and working closely with power researchers since 1999.

More details about this class and Dr. Bakken can be found at his consulting web site. www.SmartGridComms.guru.