Powers Unfiltered

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

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Skip the Prizes — Win Valuable Customers

May 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

The grid computing world is abuzz — Sun has announced the Cool Apps Developer Challenge, with $50,000 in prizes available to developers who put their applications on the Sun Grid Compute Utility.   Haven’t we been here before?  And more importantly — haven’t we gotten beyond this yet?  Since early 1999 (at least), there have been […]

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Grid Application Developers

May 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Greg Nawrocki, as usual, hits some good points today in his posting about Sun Grid.  His main point is that the key to grid adoption is available apps, and I could not agree more.  This is exactly why we put so much energy and effort into our API, why we give away the Digipede Network […]

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