Powers Unfiltered

I don’t know where I first heard the expression “pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land,” but it applies in a great many new businesses.  My hat is off to Sun for taking the roll of “giant pioneer” in the area of utility computing, with their SunGrid $1-per-CPU-hour offering that’s been in the headlines for […]

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OK, I don’t hype many of Digipede’s new customer announcements here, but go read this.  I’ll wait. We are very excited to be working with award-winning visual effects studio Digital Dimension.  These guys get it, and are a lot of fun to work with.  Multiple rendering programs, multiple locations, multiple simultaneous projects — and a […]

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I always appreciate (crave?) recognition of Digipede’s accomplishments and role in the market.  I was very pleased and honored today to receive the GridToday Editor’s Choice award for “Best Price / Performance Middleware Solution for a Grid Implementation.”  Here I am with Tom Tabor, publisher of GridToday; thanks, Mitch, for taking the picture. GridWorld shows […]

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A few months back, when I wrote an abstract for GridWorld 2006 about “Grid Computing in Small and Medium Businesses,” well, suffice it to say that we had a few discussions before the presentation was accepted.  After all, everyone seems to KNOW that there’s no such thing as grid computing in small and medium businesses […]

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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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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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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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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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OK, I promise to stop posting about the WWPC soon, but it was a very productive event for us. In addition to the many sessions I’ve already described, I had a chance to sit down with Darryl Taft of eWeek.  While he was in Boston covering the Microsoft event, he took the time to interview […]

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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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