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

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Thanks Greg!

June 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Greg Nawrocki has noticed our finalist status for Microsoft’s ISV/Software Solutions, Innovation Partner of the Year award.  Yes, the Microsoft grid market is heating up.  Microsoft has recognized that the Digipede Network can help drive sales of the new Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, and I think that’s part of the reason we were named […]

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Momentum

June 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Derrick Harris of GridToday wrote a nice piece this morning about Digipede’s recent momentum.  He’s been following us since we launched the Digipede Network almost two years ago, and he hits the highlights in his article today.  Derrick interviewed me by phone for the story, and I guess I must have let slip that the […]

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Tags: Entrepreneurship · Grid applications · Growth · Press coverage

Hedge funds and grid computing, part II

June 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

So how did the Digipede Network become the grid computing software of choice for hedge funds? The three primary value propositions that we’ve been emphasizing from the beginning resonate particularly well with hedge funds. For those of you who are new to the Digipede message, those propositions are: Performance, Simplicity, and Microsoft focus. And if […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Growth · Partnering with Microsoft

Digipede at TechEd (well, kinda)

June 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Microsoft’s huge TechEd conference is in full swing in Orlando this week.  Actually, no one from Digipede is physically at TechEd — but if you’re there, look in your bag!  See that VSIP Partner Resource DVD?  We’re on there!  You now have your own free copy of the Digipede Network Developer Edition — install it, […]

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

Upcoming MSDN Webcast

June 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

OK, we do a lot of Webcasts, and I don’t plug most of them here, but I’ll call attention to this one.  Dan and I have an MSDN Webcast called “Scaling SOA in Financial Services with Grid Computing for .NET” on June 12 at 10:00 AM Pacific time — mark your calendar now.  Here’s the MSDN […]

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

Hedge funds and grid computing, part I

May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Digipede announced another customer win today.  III Offshore Advisors, an innovative hedge fund that uses a lot of computing power in their pricing and risk management models, selected the Digipede Network for their grid.  You can read about it on our Web site; GridToday also picked up the story.  Financial firms are famously competitive, and no niche is more competitive today than […]

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Tags: Grid applications · Growth · Press coverage

Microsoft Financial Developers Conference wrapup

April 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I just returned from New York where Dan and I worked the 5th Annual Microsoft Financial Developers Conference at the Grand Hyatt hotel. Dan and I did a tag-team presentation entitled “Scaling SOA with Grid Computing for .NET,” which was well received. Frankly, I felt like I stumbled through the first part, but eventually warmed […]

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Tags: Entrepreneurship · Events · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft · Usability

Digipede to sponsor Microsoft Financial Developers Conference in NYC 4/25-26

April 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Yes, I’m going back to New York again next week.  Digipede Director of Products Dan Ciruli and I will give a presentation and demonstration entitled “Scaling SOA with Grid Computing for .NET.”  SOA here is Service Oriented Architecture, an area of increased activity for us.  Here’s the abstract we wrote for our session: Presenters:  John […]

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

Digipede and Microsoft — HPC Presentation

March 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Nathan Trueblood of Digipede will give a presentation about the role of the Digipede Network in Microsoft’s new High-Performance Computing (HPC) offering.  The presentation is part of a Microsoft HPC event in Denver on April 5, 2007, featuring the new Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS), the Digipede Network, and other Microsoft HPC partner offerings.  […]

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

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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