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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80 cores — so developers, whatcha gonna do with ’em?

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

 The New York Times reminded everyone this week what many of us already know — that pretty much all new improvements in processing speed will come from more cores.  In this article by John Markoff, Intel prepares a demonstration of a single chip with 80 cores.  (We’ve been hearing about this for many months, but […]

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Tags: Grid applications