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Dan and I will be at another one-day conference in New York on Monday, February 11 — this one is Web Services / SOA on Wall Street, at the Roosevelt Hotel.  We’ll be in booth 211. I’ll be interested to see what the crowd is like.  While the broader IT world remains somewhat divided on […]

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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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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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I recently met with the folks at Windows in Financial Services — a good source of information about the progress Microsoft and its partners are making in the financial services market.  They interviewed me about my thoughts on the current market for distributed computing in finance — I ended up talking a lot about the […]

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Or more accurately — Dan Ciruli is on DotNetRocks this week.  If you want to know how to scale out Web services using .NET (and other grid-related topics), drop everything and listen to this week’s DotNetRocks program.  Well worth it.

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OK, I’m back from vacation in Oregon, and while I promised to bore everyone catching up on old news, I think that news will still be old later — Better to start with some new news. It’s time to leak some information about the Digipede Network Version 2.0, coming this summer to a grid near […]

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