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OK, if you’re reading about distributed computing, you’re probably already reading Serial to Parallel to Distributed by Marc Jacobs, but if you’re not, it’s time to start.  Marc is a former Digipede client (at a big secretive asset manager) who has since moved on to the elite financial technology consulting firm Lab49.  Marc writes insightfully […]

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Digipede is growing again. While not yet the size of some grid competitors, we’ve hit a very interesting inflection point this year. There are many clear signs, but I’ll talk about one that may not be visible — except from my desk. At my desk, the phone is ringing and my email box overfloweth — […]

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After a little extra travel drama (sitting the standard three hours on the runway at JFK), I’m back in Oakland.  SIFMA was interesting, productive, and exhausting, as usual.  Thanks to our friends at HP, our decision not to have our own booth at SIFMA worked out great.  We camped in the front corner of their […]

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Next week, Nathan Trueblood and I will be at the Conference Formerly Known as SIA TMC — It’s the Securities Industry and Finanical Markets Association Technology Management Conference, or SIFMA TMC.  Last year I described this event as follows: If you have not been to this event, it is unlike any other trade show I’ve […]

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Finance on Windows, a magazine based in the UK, asked me to write an article on grid computing.  I took the opportunity to hammer a few of my favorite themes, mostly based around my own analysis of the economics of distributed computing.  The article is in the May 2007 issue (now being handed out at […]

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Greg Nawrocki has noticed our finalist status for Microsoft’s ISV/Software Solutions, Innovation Partner of the Year award.  Yes, the Microsoft grid market is heating up.  Microsoft has recognized that the Digipede Network can help drive sales of the new Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, and I think that’s part of the reason we were named […]

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Well, we must be doing something right; or at least Microsoft seems to think so. Microsoft has named Digipede as one of three finalists for “Innovation Partner of the Year” in the ISV/Software Solutions category.  As the only Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with a grid computing solution built on .NET, Digipede is a natural complement to a […]

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Derrick Harris of GridToday wrote a nice piece this morning about Digipede’s recent momentum.  He’s been following us since we launched the Digipede Network almost two years ago, and he hits the highlights in his article today.  Derrick interviewed me by phone for the story, and I guess I must have let slip that the […]

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So how did the Digipede Network become the grid computing software of choice for hedge funds? The three primary value propositions that we’ve been emphasizing from the beginning resonate particularly well with hedge funds. For those of you who are new to the Digipede message, those propositions are: Performance, Simplicity, and Microsoft focus. And if […]

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OK, we do a lot of Webcasts, and I don’t plug most of them here, but I’ll call attention to this one.  Dan and I have an MSDN Webcast called “Scaling SOA in Financial Services with Grid Computing for .NET” on June 12 at 10:00 AM Pacific time — mark your calendar now.  Here’s the MSDN […]

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