Powers Unfiltered

I went to Microsoft’s Mountain View office last week, where I did an interview with William Leong, Microsoft ISV Evangelist.  We talked about Digipede’s market, products, and the need for grid computing in businesses of all sizes.  We even talked about IronPython, and how a last-minute addition to a recent version of our software has [...]

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Who says there’s no good news for financial companies?
Penny Crosman provided some good news for banks, hedge funds, and other money managers in her article today in Wall Street & Technology — good news for financial developers and IT professionals who need to access more processing power without complex application re-engineering. 
You can read the article [...]

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I’ve written here about Digipede’s financial services customers (about half of Digipede’s business is in that market), but today I’ll talk about an interesting project from the other half of our business. 
We did a press release today  about the recent sale we made to the US Navy.  You can read that here, so let’s go a [...]

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The world is indeed getting smaller — and quicker, and better connected. And you might as well talk about what you’re doing, because smart well-connected people will figure everything out immediately anyway.
Case in point: Marc Adler’s recent post about Velocity, in which he says:
. . . It is no secret that the [...]

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I can’t believe I still haven’t had a chance to write about Velocity, Microsoft’s recently announced in-memory cache.  I think  this is just further proof that I have an endless backlog of topics about which I should be writing.
In any case, Derrick Harris of Grid Today has done a great job of connecting the dots [...]

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Digipede CTO Robert Anderson is blogging about a recent experiment we’ve conducted in our lab, assessing what it would take to get the Digipede Agent running on Mono. (For those of you who don’t know, Mono is a cross-platform implementation of .NET, developed as an open-source project led by Miguel de Icaza, and sponsored [...]

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Releasing software is hard.
Sure, the individual steps like specifying, developing, testing, documenting, and planning support for new software features are difficult enough — but the discipline of knowing when to STOP adding features, and to focus instead on finishing a complete, polished, release-ready product is tougher than it sounds to those outside the industry.
In any [...]

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Derek Furguson of Bear Stearns (now JPMorgan Chase) has a good article in .NET Developer Journal about how to apply genetic algorithms and grid computing to the problem of market timing in stock trading. I was pleased to see that he chose to implement his algorithms using the Digipede Network.
His article is in [...]

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In his most recent Dr. Dobb’s article, Matt Davey has some good commentary on Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework, including PLINQ — as well as some very practical ideas about how developers can work with LINQ and the Digipede Network to build high-performance grid applications in .NET today.
Matt illustrates his ideas with [...]

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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 [...]

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