Powers Unfiltered

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

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Multi-Core and Grid Computing — New Digipede Video Shows the Way

February 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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 […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Growth · Presentations

Back in Redmond (or nearly)

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft