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

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Kim’s speaking at the Bay Area .NET User Group on Thursday

September 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Digipede Evangelista Kim Greenlee will present at the Bay Area .NET User Group on Thursday, September 28.  The show starts at 6:30, at 1 Market Street (the “Landmark Building”) in San Francisco.  (Yes, that’s Microsoft’s office — go to the second floor, and score some free pizza.)  It’s an easy BART ride from wherever you  […]

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Tags: Events · Grid applications · Presentations

VSIP Summit

September 1st, 2006 · 3 Comments

I spent portions of the last three days at the Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) summit in Redmond.  Thanks and congratulations to the whole VSIP team for a worthwhile and fun event! VSIP is another of the Microsoft partner programs that can deliver great value if you’re patient and willing to work a bit.  As a continuing public […]

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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

Digipede Presentation in Fresno

August 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Digipede Evangelist Kim Greenlee is headed to Fresno, where she’ll be the featured speaker at the Central California .NET User Group meeting on Wednesday, August 9.  The meeting starts at 6:30 and will be held at California State University, Fresno (Business Center, room 194). Kim’s talk is entitled From Threads to Grid – Application Scalability […]

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Another .NET expert weighs in on the Digipede Network

August 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Mike Gunderloy,  developer / author / publisher of the Larkware Web site, reviewed the Digipede Network Developer Edition yesterday.  He dug it: …What The Digipede Network brings to the table is a polished way to set up a .NET-based grid on your own network, ready to undertake distributed computing jobs at a moment’s notice. When […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Usability

Windows is optimal OS for grid computing, says Digipede

August 3rd, 2006 · 7 Comments

I adapted the title of this post from an article that appeared this week in PC Welt, entitled “Linux is optimal OS for grid computing, says Oracle.” (I found it through the diligent grid coverage provided by Greg Nawrocki in Grid Meter — thanks Greg!) The article is primarily coverage of a presentation by Guy […]

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Tags: Grid applications

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

New York, New York

June 19th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the Hilton in midtown Manhattan this week.  I took the redeye on JetBlue last night to make it to a meeting that’s been canceled, I’ve been ineptly “helping” Dan and Nathan set up the Digipede booth (#4506), and have not slept in exactly 24 […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations

Digipede and Other Grid Options

May 18th, 2006 · No Comments

We get questions about how the Digipede Network compares to Vendor X or Open Source Project Y pretty often; a recent example is from Matt Davey’s Tales from a Trading Desk, where Matt asked: .NET Grid Computing. Not sure what it’s advantages are over and above DataSynapse. Would be interested to know if anyone has […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft