Or more accurately — Dan Ciruli is on DotNetRocks this week.
If you want to know how to scale out Web services using .NET (and other grid-related topics), drop everything and listen to this week’s DotNetRocks program. Well worth it.
Tags: Dan-Ciruli, Digipede, dotnet, dotnetrocks, grid-computing, Web-services
OK, I’m back from vacation in Oregon, and while I promised to bore everyone catching up on old news, I think that news will still be old later — Better to start with some new news.
It’s time to leak some information about the Digipede Network Version 2.0, coming this summer to a grid near you.
Never mind that we’re plagued by the same version-number inconsistency that affects every other software company (and yes, our most recent release really is called 1.3.2f; want to make something of it?) — this is the Summer of 2.0.
We’ve been chewing away on suggestions (ranging from obvious to brilliant) brought forth by our customers, partners, prospects, and fans over the past several months, and the new release will have something for everybody.
Shortly after we brought out 1.3, I wrote here that this release was about “developers, developers, developers.” And it was. And it is. And it shall be to come. It’s no secret now that the secret sauce of the Digipede Network is in the way we make it drop-dead simple for developers to adapt real-world applications to a grid — without changing programming paradigms or development tools.
So first and foremost — you’ll see more of the same. Developers get more ways to manipulate pools of compute resources, more development patterns for definition of jobs and tasks, more code samples to jump-start their own applications — more of the best SDK in the business.
Second, you’ll see the evolutionary new Digipede Control. Yes, it’s familiar — but it’s more powerful, with new ways for administrators to work with larger groups of Digipede Agents, users, and applications. As we work with customers with larger and larger grids, we’re constantly improving overall manageability; 2.0 will continue this trend, and so will 2.1, and 2.3.2f.
Third, you’ll see your results even faster. You’ll see lower latency throughout the system, improving performance on short tasks significantly. And with more clever options for taking advantage of multiple cores, broad classes of applications can now see even greater performance increases with very little effort.
Fourth, you’ll see even more integration with Microsoft products. You’ll be able to schedule jobs directly from the Digipede Network onto a Windows CCS cluster via the CCS Job Scheduler (nice). You’ll have a Visual Studio plug-in that allows debugging of a master application and a distributed application all on a single machine (sweet). And — well actually, there’s lots more, but why give it all away now? I’ll have more to say as we get closer to a release date.
Tags: ccs, Compute Cluster Server, Compute-Cluster, Digipede, Digipede-Network, grid-computing, Microsoft, SDK
I am on vacation in Oregon with my family. (As some of you know, I’m a closet Oregonian — the seven years I lived here left a big impression, and I come back here a lot.)
At first I thought “hey, this will be a great time to catch up on all the blogging I didn’t do last week from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, and to write a few posts about all the cool things I have to say about the upcoming release of Version 2.0 of the Digipede Network, and to comment on a bunch of recent blog posts I think are cool, and . . .”
Now I think — forget that. I’m going whitewater rafting. Go read Dan’s blog, and Rob’s blog — I’ll be back late next week, with much stale news.
Digipede is the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year!
A huge thank you to all our customers, partners, and the increasingly large, vocal, and supportive Microsoft chapter of the Digipede Fan Club.
I will have more details on this announcement, and on our experiences at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference some time soon, but I wanted to get this out there now.
Tags: Digipede, innovation, Microsoft, WPC, wwpc
I’m in Denver today for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which starts tomorrow. The big event this year, or course, will come on Wednesday, when we find out who will be the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year! Did I mention that Digipede is a finalist? Digipede is a finalist. So are worthy contenders Fractal Edge and Tecnologia de Gerencia Comercial S/A.
Today I’m attending the pre-conference Worldwide Industry Partner Forum, an event with more industry-specific content. Surprisingly good content, and good advice on how to navigate Microsoft’s organization to work effectively with Microsoft and to win business together. While there is a lot of complexity in the way Microsoft aligns its own staff to products, markets, roles, locations, campaigns, initiatives, programs, plans, commitments, and whatnot — it’s worth understanding a lot of it.
I went to the “welcome reception” tonight, and was pleased to observe that food was abundant; let’s hope that’s a sign that the buffalo meat of Denver lasts longer than whatever was for lunch in Boston last year.
If you’re here in Denver, just email me (john at digipede dot net) or call my cell 510-326-1761 and we’ll find a way to get together.
Tags: denver, Digipede, finalist, ISV, Microsoft, worldwide-partner-conference, WPC, wwpc
OK, if you’re reading about distributed computing, you’re probably already reading Serial to Parallel to Distributed by Marc Jacobs, but if you’re not, it’s time to start. Marc is a former Digipede client (at a big secretive asset manager) who has since moved on to the elite financial technology consulting firm Lab49.
Marc writes insightfully on a variety of issues related to grid and high-performance computing, and he’s recently finished his best and most comprehensive series to date. It’s a seven-part series of posts based on a speech he gave on the state of high-performance computing in finance, at a Microsoft HPC event in New York earlier this year.
I was fortunate to be at the HPC event, to attend Marc’s presentation, and to watch as the attendees learned a lot about the real needs of customers in this market. Read, and see what I mean:
I will not attribute causality, but I will note that in the six months since Marc gave this presentation, Digipede sales are up more than 600% over sales in the year-earlier period, and that the majority of that increase is in financial services.
Tags: Digipede, grid-computing, high-performance-computing, HPC, Lab49, Marc-Jacobs, Microsoft