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Derrick Harris of GridToday wanted to know more about the Digipede Network Version 2.0.
For those zero of you who don’t read GridToday until I point you there, his recent interview of me is here.
More later from High Performance on Wall Street.

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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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Greg Nawrocki has another excellent article today, featured in GridToday (under the unlikely title Building the Perfect ‘Grid Sandwich’). He reviews various issues related to grid adoption:  Hardware? Check. Network? Check. Middleware? Many choices.  Eventually he orbits back to his favorite topic and mine — applications.
But what about the applications? I’ve mentioned this before, [...]

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Whenever I’m tempted to write about technical computing topics, I lie down until the urge goes away — because someone smarter will write something better than I would have anyway.  Want proof?  Read the article by Robert W. Anderson and Daniel Ciruli in the latest Dr. Dobb’s Journal, “Scaling SOA with Distributed Computing.”  While lots [...]

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As my loyal readers know, I recently spotted an article called “Linux is optimal OS for grid computing, says Oracle,” and I took a swipe at it because, well, I disagree. Today I’ll take a little more time to explain my comments about the Microsoft platform, and why we’ve bet our company on grid computing [...]

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OK, I promise to stop posting about the WWPC soon, but it was a very productive event for us.
In addition to the many sessions I’ve already described, I had a chance to sit down with Darryl Taft of eWeek.  While he was in Boston covering the Microsoft event, he took the time to interview me [...]

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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 programmatic integration [...]

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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 the [...]

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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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