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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

Microsoft Azure — Looks like a winner

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Now that the big announcements about Microsoft’s cloud computing platform are out at PDC, I can finally talk about stuff formerly under NDA. All I can say is — wow.  The Microsoft transition from cloud-absent to cloud-giant has begun.  There have been hints and leaks and guesses for quite some time now, but the announcements […]

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Tags: Cloud computing · Events · Partnering with Microsoft

Digipede and Velocity

June 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The world is indeed getting smaller — and quicker, and better connected. And you might as well talk about what you’re doing, because smart well-connected people will figure everything out immediately anyway. Case in point: Marc Adler’s recent post about Velocity, in which he says: . . . It is no secret that the most […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft

Digipede in .NET Developer’s Journal grid computing article

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Derek Furguson of Bear Stearns (now JPMorgan Chase) has a good article in .NET Developer Journal about how to apply genetic algorithms and grid computing to the problem of market timing in stock trading. I was pleased to see that he chose to implement his algorithms using the Digipede Network. His article is in two […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Press coverage · Usability

LINQ and Digipede — great Dr. Dobb’s article by Matt Davey

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Grid applications

Reports from the front in Financial Services Grid Computing

February 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Marc at Magmasystems relates his findings from a recent trip to London, where he says: Got together with some ex-colleagues, who were marvelling at the Lodnon consulting market. The hot areas are Grid Computing, with the prevelant stack being DataSynapse and Tangasol. Also demand is picking up for WPF, with Morgan Stanley leading the way. […]

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

Digipede’s Kim Greenlee to present at .NET Developer Event in Redmond

December 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Attention .NET Developers of the greater Seattle area (I hear there are some up there…). Digipede Evangelist Kim Greenlee will give a presentation on Concurrent Software Development at the .NET Developers Association meeting on Monday, December 11.  The meeting is on the Microsoft campus – in Building 40, the Steptoe Room (#1450).  She blogs about it here; be […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations

Happy 1000

October 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Congratulations to Mike Gunderloy on the one thousandth issue of The Daily Grind.  There is no better place for your daily dose of .NET developer news.  Great work, Mike — Keep it up!

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Tags: Entrepreneurship · Press coverage

Code Camp! Code Camp!

October 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

Digipede is sponsoring Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend (October 7-8).  There are many good sessions, including (so far) three by Team Digipede.  Our Evangelista Kim Greenlee has a session on concurrency, and another one on debugging in VS2005.  Our Director of Products Dan Ciruli is talking about using .NET behind Excel Services. Go see […]

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Tags: Events · Presentations

Digipede Network Version 1.3 — Beyond the Press Release

October 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

OK, here’s where I get to tell the real story about the new release the Digipede Network that I could not fit into the somewhat restrictive form of a press release earlier this month.  For the facts, you can go see “what’s new.”  But for the STORY, well, read on.  First, let’s go deep into […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Entrepreneurship · Grid applications · Press coverage · Startup Life