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For the folks following our Adventures in Partnerland, here’s an update. About two weeks ago, I wrote a post here about how the persistent technical difficulties with the Microsoft Partner Program Web site (partners.microsoft.com) had spilled over from every-day inconvenience to genuine negative impact on our relations with our customers. I howled, because I think […]

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All my regular readers know I use the Microsoft partner Web sites fairly often, and that I experience frustrating time-sucking issues almost as often. Believe me, I spare my readership the great majority of my experiences with the unending nightmare that is the Microsoft partner online world, and when I do raise these issues I’m […]

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Functional programming and grid computing are a good match for some types of computing problems.  Digipede Director of Products Dan Ciruli has been experimenting with F# and the Digipede Network.  He has posted a code sample showing how to distribute F# calculations across a grid using the Digipede Framework SDK, along with some comments describing […]

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I will be attending an event called “Advancements in Quantitative Finance,” sponsored by Microsoft and its partners, on Wednesday 12/12 in Midtown. Information on this free event, including how to register, is found here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032358329 The agenda looks good; the presentations appear to be primarily financial customers and academic experts, not Microsoft or other vendor […]

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Dan and I arrived in Scotland on Monday after a long but trouble-free journey (thanks, British Airways and BellaTerra Travel). After attempting to catch up on sleep Monday night (I can’t sleep on planes, day or night, no matter how long the trip…), we attended Day 1 of High Throughput Computing Week at the UK […]

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I have been invited to speak at a conference on High Throughput Computing at the UK National e-Science Center in Edinburgh next week.  This is extraordinary on a number of levels. First, the event is called “High Throughput Computing Week.”  If someone had told you five years ago that there was a “High Throughput Computing […]

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I am at the Supercomputing conference in Reno Nevada today and tomorrow. If you’re here and want to meet up, please call my cell — 510-326-1761. Much of the time I’ll be in the booth of our partner AMD (thanks guys!) showing off the latest version of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster […]

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As a vocal detractor of Microsoft’s Channel Builder, I feel I have to report anything positive that happens there, too (note that prior to this week I have never had anything even remotely good to report in my 2.5 year history of using this tragically misguided Microsoft tool). So I promise, buried in this long […]

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Derrick Harris of GridToday wanted to know more about the Digipede Network Version 2.0. For those zero of you who don’t read GridToday until I point you there, his recent interview of me is here. More later from High Performance on Wall Street.

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Dan Ciruli and I will be at HPC on Wall Street at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City next Monday (September 17). We’ll be releasing Version 2.0 of the Digipede Network, and meeting with many analysts, press, customers, prospects, partners, and bartenders.  Since some of that could be pretty time consuming, we’ll also be […]

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