Dan Ciruli, Nathan Trueblood and I will be at the Windows Server 2008 Launch in Los Angeles tomorrow.

Wear our sticker at this event — you could win an XBox 360!

Digipede has a station in the “Partner Pavillion” in the LA Convention Center, at which we will be demonstrating the only grid computing solution Certified for Windows Server 2008.

We’ll also be handing out the highly coveted Laptop Fashion Statement of 2008 — an oval sticker featuring the Digipede logo. A randomly selected attendee spotted wearing this sticker (on your laptop or anywhere else!) will win an XBox 360, so stop by our station and wear your sticker proudly!

We’ll be showing cool grid and multi-core demos like this one, too.  If you’ll be there, contact me, and we’ll meet up.

Tags: Certified-for-Windows-Server-2008, Digipede, grid-computing, Launch, Microsoft, Server-2008, XBox

It’s no secret that multi-core computing is the future; Intel and AMD have told us they can’t make a single core go much faster, but they can pack more and more cores onto a single chip.

Current operating systems, compilers, and frameworks do little to assist the application architect or developer in taking advantage of this radical change in hardware. 

Digipede’s grid computing software is remarkably good at distributing application workloads — not just across multiple machines on a grid, but also across multiple cores on a chip.   Here’s a video I made this weekend that shows how we use the same exact technology to distribute calculations first across multiple cores on a single server, then across a larger grid.  Please have a look — I managed to keep it under four minutes!

    http://www.digipede.net/downloads/digipede_multicore_grid_demo.html

As a complement to this video, you may also want to check out Dan Ciruli’s earlier demonstration that shows the code changes required to grid-enable an application — just 20 lines of code!

   http://www.digipede.net/products/whitepaper.html  (scroll down to the “Videos” section)

I’ll have lots more about this topic in the coming few weeks. 

I am in Bellevue, Washington today and tomorrow for a meeting of Microsoft partners in financial services.  The meeting is in one of Microsoft’s many local offices.  (If any of my loyal Microsoft readers want to get together, please contact me and we’ll work something out.)

The financial services IT market is going through some interesting times at the moment (in the Chinese curse sense of the phrase).  Opportunities abound — but they’re shifting.   At Digipede, we only see a small piece of that market.  I’m looking forward to learning how our colleagues among other Microsoft partners (and in the Microsoft Financial Services Group) see that market — and how we can go after new opportunities together.  

Tags: Digipede, financial-services, Microsoft

Dan and I will be at another one-day conference in New York on Monday, February 11 — this one is Web Services / SOA on Wall Street, at the Roosevelt Hotel.  We’ll be in booth 211.

I’ll be interested to see what the crowd is like.  While the broader IT world remains somewhat divided on how widely applicable service-oriented architectures really are, we’ve seen many of our financial services clients moving quite rapidly toward SOA.

We’ve been helping these clients build scalable services using grids based on the Digipede Network.  And, as Rob and Dan said so well in their now-classic Dr. Dobb’s article on grid computing and SOA, ” You can’t build a scalable SOA on top of services that don’t scale.”

We’ll have some nifty demos (as always), and some new customer stories (ditto), and some controversial opinions to contribute to the conversation (no surprise there, either).  If you’ll be there, contact me and we’ll find a way to meet up.

Tags: Digipede, grid-computing, scalable, SOA, Web-services