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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 two […]

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Or more accurately — Dan Ciruli is on DotNetRocks this week.  If you want to know how to scale out Web services using .NET (and other grid-related topics), drop everything and listen to this week’s DotNetRocks program.  Well worth it.

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Marc at Magmasystems relates his findings from a recent trip to London, where he says: Got together with some ex-colleagues, who were marvelling at the Lodnon consulting market. The hot areas are Grid Computing, with the prevelant stack being DataSynapse and Tangasol. Also demand is picking up for WPF, with Morgan Stanley leading the way. […]

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Digipede is sponsoring Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend (October 7-8).  There are many good sessions, including (so far) three by Team Digipede.  Our Evangelista Kim Greenlee has a session on concurrency, and another one on debugging in VS2005.  Our Director of Products Dan Ciruli is talking about using .NET behind Excel Services. Go see […]

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OK, here’s where I get to tell the real story about the new release the Digipede Network that I could not fit into the somewhat restrictive form of a press release earlier this month.  For the facts, you can go see “what’s new.”  But for the STORY, well, read on.  First, let’s go deep into […]

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Digipede Evangelista Kim Greenlee will present at the Bay Area .NET User Group on Thursday, September 28.  The show starts at 6:30, at 1 Market Street (the “Landmark Building”) in San Francisco.  (Yes, that’s Microsoft’s office — go to the second floor, and score some free pizza.)  It’s an easy BART ride from wherever you  […]

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Don Canning describes “how a startup becomes an industry success,” providing his own take on our recent demonstration of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference.  When Don says: Microsoft as a team is working closely with Digipede Technologies to enable seamless […]

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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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I’m at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the Hilton in midtown Manhattan this week.  I took the redeye on JetBlue last night to make it to a meeting that’s been canceled, I’ve been ineptly “helping” Dan and Nathan set up the Digipede booth (#4506), and have not slept in exactly 24 […]

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