Powers Unfiltered

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

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Digipede Network 2.4 — Beyond the Press Release

July 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

As many of you probably saw (thank you, Google News Alerts), Digipede has just released a new version of our award-winning grid computing software, the Digipede Network.  Whew. One of the most painful and joyful events in the life of a software company is the release of new software.  While this seems like an obvious […]

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Tags: Cloud computing · Customer Service · Grid applications · Press coverage · Usability

Good News on Wall Street

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Who says there’s no good news for financial companies? Penny Crosman provided some good news for banks, hedge funds, and other money managers in her article today in Wall Street & Technology — good news for financial developers and IT professionals who need to access more processing power without complex application re-engineering.  You can read […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Press coverage · Usability

Interview in GridToday

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Press coverage

Hedge funds and grid computing, part II

June 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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. And if […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Growth · Partnering with Microsoft

Grids and Spreadsheets

October 16th, 2006 · No Comments

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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Tags: Grid applications

Great new Dr. Dobb’s article on Scaling SOA

October 5th, 2006 · No Comments

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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Tags: Grid applications · Press coverage

Grid Computing for Windows, part deux

August 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft

Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference — Digipede Press Coverage

July 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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 […]

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

Thanks, Don!

July 6th, 2006 · No Comments

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

.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