Powers Unfiltered

I will be attending an event called “Advancements in Quantitative Finance,” sponsored by Microsoft and its partners, on Wednesday 12/12 in Midtown. Information on this free event, including how to register, is found here:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032358329
The agenda looks good; the presentations appear to be primarily financial customers and academic experts, not Microsoft or other [...]

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I recently met with the folks at Windows in Financial Services — a good source of information about the progress Microsoft and its partners are making in the financial services market. 
They interviewed me about my thoughts on the current market for distributed computing in finance — I ended up talking a lot about the changing [...]

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After a little extra travel drama (sitting the standard three hours on the runway at JFK), I’m back in Oakland.  SIFMA was interesting, productive, and exhausting, as usual. 
Thanks to our friends at HP, our decision not to have our own booth at SIFMA worked out great.  We camped in the front corner of their booth [...]

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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 ever [...]

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Finance on Windows, a magazine based in the UK, asked me to write an article on grid computing.  I took the opportunity to hammer a few of my favorite themes, mostly based around my own analysis of the economics of distributed computing.  The article is in the May 2007 issue (now being handed out at [...]

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So how did the Digipede Network become the grid computing software of choice for hedge funds?
The three primary value propositions that we’ve been emphasizing from the beginning resonate particularly well with hedge funds. For those of you who are new to the Digipede message, those propositions are: Performance, Simplicity, and Microsoft focus. [...]

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I just returned from New York where Dan and I worked the 5th Annual Microsoft Financial Developers Conference at the Grand Hyatt hotel. Dan and I did a tag-team presentation entitled “Scaling SOA with Grid Computing for .NET,” which was well received. Frankly, I felt like I stumbled through the first part, but eventually warmed [...]

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Yes, I’m going back to New York again next week.  Digipede Director of Products Dan Ciruli and I will give a presentation and demonstration entitled “Scaling SOA with Grid Computing for .NET.”  SOA here is Service Oriented Architecture, an area of increased activity for us.  Here’s the abstract we wrote for our session:
Presenters:  John Powers [...]

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I went to New York again this week to see customers, prospects, partners, and so on.  But it pays to keep your plans flexible — because while I was there, a friend got me an invitation to a reception at Club 21 on Tuesday evening with a bunch of financial services executives and Steve Ballmer.  Earlier in [...]

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On Wednesday, December 6, Microsoft, Digipede, and other Microsoft HPC partners will host a half-day informational event describing how to achieve faster “time to insight” from computationally intensive financial applications. 
Nathan Trueblood and I will be there (with one or more Digipede customers and a bunch of our friends from Microsoft) to help make this a [...]

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