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I went to Microsoft’s Mountain View office last week, where I did an interview with William Leong, Microsoft ISV Evangelist.  We talked about Digipede’s market, products, and the need for grid computing in businesses of all sizes.  We even talked about IronPython, and how a last-minute addition to a recent version of our software has […]

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Digipede CTO Robert Anderson is blogging about a recent experiment we’ve conducted in our lab, assessing what it would take to get the Digipede Agent running on Mono. (For those of you who don’t know, Mono is a cross-platform implementation of .NET, developed as an open-source project led by Miguel de Icaza, and sponsored by […]

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In his most recent Dr. Dobb’s article, Matt Davey has some good commentary on Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework, including PLINQ — as well as some very practical ideas about how developers can work with LINQ and the Digipede Network to build high-performance grid applications in .NET today. Matt illustrates his ideas with some […]

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I am back home from SC ’07, my fifth Supercomputing conference. I saw some really impressive new technology from market leaders old and new. I heard remarkable claims and forecasts from analysts, pundits, and marketing flacks alike. I learned a lot, and contributed what I could. Yet at this conference, full of the so-called thought […]

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I am at the Supercomputing conference in Reno Nevada today and tomorrow. If you’re here and want to meet up, please call my cell — 510-326-1761. Much of the time I’ll be in the booth of our partner AMD (thanks guys!) showing off the latest version of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster […]

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John West at insideHPC.com has come up with a great idea.  He’s doing profiles of interesting companies in or around the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market, with the intent of distilling the marketing language and press coverage and white papers and Webcasts and conference events into something unique and important about each firm. As I read […]

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Dan Ciruli and I will be at HPC on Wall Street at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City next Monday (September 17). We’ll be releasing Version 2.0 of the Digipede Network, and meeting with many analysts, press, customers, prospects, partners, and bartenders.  Since some of that could be pretty time consuming, we’ll also be […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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