Powers Unfiltered

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

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The Digipede Network, Version 2.0 — More better

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments

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 […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft

Digipede at SIFMA

June 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Next week, Nathan Trueblood and I will be at the Conference Formerly Known as SIA TMC — It’s the Securities Industry and Finanical Markets Association Technology Management Conference, or SIFMA TMC.  Last year I described this event as follows: If you have not been to this event, it is unlike any other trade show I’ve […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Grid applications

Digipede and Microsoft — HPC Presentation

March 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Nathan Trueblood of Digipede will give a presentation about the role of the Digipede Network in Microsoft’s new High-Performance Computing (HPC) offering.  The presentation is part of a Microsoft HPC event in Denver on April 5, 2007, featuring the new Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS), the Digipede Network, and other Microsoft HPC partner offerings.  […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations

.NET Grid Projects, Mono, and CCS in Finance

June 30th, 2006 · No Comments

In his blog “Tales from a Trading Desk,” Matt Davey poses some interesting speculation: Will any investment bank has the guts to deploy Mono on its servers to run .NET trading software? I’m not sure. If the bank has already deployed Microsoft .NET to all its workstations why wouldn’t it just use Microsoft .NET on […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Grid applications