Powers Unfiltered

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

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SC06

November 9th, 2006 · No Comments

The annual Supercomputing conference (SC06) is in Tampa, Florida next week.  Actually, it starts this weekend and runs for a ridiculous seven days, but Dan and I will be there Monday night through Thursday afternoon — which will be plenty.  SC is a “must attend” show in the high performance computing / grid computing / […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Entrepreneurship · Events

At GridWorld 2006

September 12th, 2006 · No Comments

I always appreciate (crave?) recognition of Digipede’s accomplishments and role in the market.  I was very pleased and honored today to receive the GridToday Editor’s Choice award for “Best Price / Performance Middleware Solution for a Grid Implementation.”  Here I am with Tom Tabor, publisher of GridToday; thanks, Mitch, for taking the picture. GridWorld shows […]

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Tags: Events · Grid applications · Presentations

GridWorld 2006: When it sounds too good to be true…

September 10th, 2006 · 2 Comments

A few months back, when I wrote an abstract for GridWorld 2006 about “Grid Computing in Small and Medium Businesses,” well, suffice it to say that we had a few discussions before the presentation was accepted.  After all, everyone seems to KNOW that there’s no such thing as grid computing in small and medium businesses […]

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Tags: Events · Grid applications · Presentations