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OK, if you’re reading about distributed computing, you’re probably already reading Serial to Parallel to Distributed by Marc Jacobs, but if you’re not, it’s time to start.  Marc is a former Digipede client (at a big secretive asset manager) who has since moved on to the elite financial technology consulting firm Lab49. 
Marc writes insightfully on [...]

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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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I attended the keynote sessions again this morning at the Microsoft WWPC.  The highlight of the morning, for me, was Andy Lees, who talked extensively about the progress Microsoft had made in the server market.  He was quite clear about how he sees the high-performance computing (HPC) market, and the opportunity for Microsoft and its [...]

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