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An entrepreneur’s journey into grid computing and partnering with Microsoft, by John Powers

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Entries from November 2007

HTC Week, Days 1-3

November 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Dan and I arrived in Scotland on Monday after a long but trouble-free journey (thanks, British Airways and BellaTerra Travel). After attempting to catch up on sleep Monday night (I can’t sleep on planes, day or night, no matter how long the trip…), we attended Day 1 of High Throughput Computing Week at the UK […]

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Tags: Events · Grid applications · Presentations

High-Throughput Computing — Going to Scotland!

November 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I have been invited to speak at a conference on High Throughput Computing at the UK National e-Science Center in Edinburgh next week.  This is extraordinary on a number of levels. First, the event is called “High Throughput Computing Week.”  If someone had told you five years ago that there was a “High Throughput Computing […]

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SC ’07 — the bashers’ ball?

November 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I am back home from SC ’07, my fifth Supercomputing conference. I saw some really impressive new technology from market leaders old and new. I heard remarkable claims and forecasts from analysts, pundits, and marketing flacks alike. I learned a lot, and contributed what I could. Yet at this conference, full of the so-called thought […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events

At SC07

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I am at the Supercomputing conference in Reno Nevada today and tomorrow. If you’re here and want to meet up, please call my cell — 510-326-1761. Much of the time I’ll be in the booth of our partner AMD (thanks guys!) showing off the latest version of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events