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

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.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

Digipede at SIA — Big show, big partners, big news

June 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

Digipede’s trip to the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference went better than planned. With a presence in four locations (the Digipede booth, Microsoft booth, HP booth, and the Microsoft / HP “break room”), we were rocking pretty hard for three days straight. If you have not been to this event, it is unlike […]

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

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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Tags: Grid applications