Great opportunity for eScience folks looking to get updated on SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
Free* in-depth online training on the newest features of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, with hands-on virtual labs, and offline functionality * Microsoft E-Learning for Visual Studio 2005 is free until November 8, 2005. Microsoft E-Learning for SQL Server 2005 is free until November 1, 2006. Internet connection time charges may apply. · Visual Studio 2005 Learning Resources: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/learning · SQL Server 2005 Learning Resources: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sql/learning/
Free* in-depth online training on the newest features of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, with hands-on virtual labs, and offline functionality
* Microsoft E-Learning for Visual Studio 2005 is free until November 8, 2005. Microsoft E-Learning for SQL Server 2005 is free until November 1, 2006. Internet connection time charges may apply.
· Visual Studio 2005 Learning Resources: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/learning
· SQL Server 2005 Learning Resources: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sql/learning/
Cornell Theory Center hosts a list of bio related software programs that run on Windows and code is available via Visual Studio .NET 2003.
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/wba
Digipede shipped their distributed/grid computing solution for Windows and .NET.
The Digipede Network is the first commercial grid computing solution based entirely on the Microsoft .NET platform and is easier to buy, install, learn and use than other grid computing solutions. While competing offerings require expensive consultants and complex scripting, the Digipede Network is an easy-to-use, affordable solution that requires no custom configuration or on-site implementation help. Customers can be up and running in an hour.
It’s great to see a commercial product out to help companies with Grid functionality (cycle stealing, etc) – since most of the solutions supporting .NET I’ve been aware of have been from the academic community – G2, W.ND Blast, Bayanihan, & Condor. It would be great to hear experiences in using it…
The presentations given at the International Symposium on Web Services for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics – at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech on May 25-27, 2005 have been posted. The event was quite well run and the presentations very interesting – It’s especially interesting to see how specific scientific domains are looking to utilize web services infrastructure and what pieces are still needed.