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. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Grid applications'
Reports from the front in Financial Services Grid Computing
February 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft
Interview in the Globus Consortium Journal
January 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Greg Narwocki and I agree violently on at least one major issue — the importance of compelling applications for the success of grid computing. Indeed, Greg has declared 2007 the Year of the Grid Application. Greg runs the Globus Consortium, and when he decided to title the first issue of the Globus Consortium Journal “Focus on […]
Tags: Grid applications · Press coverage
HPC event in NYC
November 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment
On Wednesday, December 6, Microsoft, Digipede, and other Microsoft HPC partners will host a half-day informational event describing how to achieve faster “time to insight” from computationally intensive financial applications. Nathan Trueblood and I will be there (with one or more Digipede customers and a bunch of our friends from Microsoft) to help make this […]
Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations
Grid computing in financial services
November 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Big Webcast today — Hear UBS Director of IT Eric Kristoff, Microsoft Industry Architect Stevan Vidich, and yours truly expound on the wonders of grid computing in the financial services industry. Go here: http://www.xtalks.com/gridcomputing.ashx Â
Tags: Events · Grid applications · Presentations
Not a Utility
October 25th, 2006 · No Comments
Emil Sit has an excellent post on his recent experience with SunGrid, charitably titled “Observations on SunGrid Customer Care.” He begins with: I haven’t used the SunGrid this week. In fact, no one has: there was a four day outage from last Saturday morning through this morning. His post is quite illuminating about Sun, customer care, […]
Tags: Grid applications · Usability · Utility Industry
Grids and Spreadsheets
October 16th, 2006 · No Comments
Greg Nawrocki has another excellent article today, featured in GridToday (under the unlikely title Building the Perfect ‘Grid Sandwich’). He reviews various issues related to grid adoption: Hardware? Check. Network? Check. Middleware? Many choices. Eventually he orbits back to his favorite topic and mine — applications. But what about the applications? I’ve mentioned this before, […]
Tags: Grid applications
Great new Dr. Dobb’s article on Scaling SOA
October 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Whenever I’m tempted to write about technical computing topics, I lie down until the urge goes away — because someone smarter will write something better than I would have anyway. Want proof? Read the article by Robert W. Anderson and Daniel Ciruli in the latest Dr. Dobb’s Journal, “Scaling SOA with Distributed Computing.” While lots […]
Tags: Grid applications · Press coverage
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 […]
Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Entrepreneurship · Grid applications · Press coverage · Startup Life
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 […]
Tags: Events · Grid applications · Presentations
How cool is that?
September 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Kudos to Dan Ciruli (our Director of Products, and also Product Manager for the Digipede Network, and also Bug Hunter, Documentation Czar, Demo Application Coder, Stand-in Sales Engineer, frequent Webcast Demo Guy and probably half a dozen other things I’m leaving out). He’s been working late into the night on the release of Version 1.3 […]
Tags: Entrepreneurship · Grid applications · Startup Life