From the Microsoft Interoperability Web site -
Microsoft Enhances Interoperability With Open Virtualization Format BRUSSELS, Belgium — Oct. 17, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Interoperability Summit in Brussels that its virtualization format technology will now be available under its Open Specification Promise (OSP), an irrevocable promise from Microsoft to every individual and organization in the world to make use of this patented technology for free, now and forever when implementing specified open standards. Microsoft first announced the availability of an OSP for Web services specifications in September 2006 and now is expanding its customer-focused commitment to interoperability by applying the OSP to Microsoft’s Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format specification.
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Oct. 17, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Interoperability Summit in Brussels that its virtualization format technology will now be available under its Open Specification Promise (OSP), an irrevocable promise from Microsoft to every individual and organization in the world to make use of this patented technology for free, now and forever when implementing specified open standards. Microsoft first announced the availability of an OSP for Web services specifications in September 2006 and now is expanding its customer-focused commitment to interoperability by applying the OSP to Microsoft’s Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format specification.
Source: Microsoft Enhances Interoperability With Open Virtualization Format: Irrevocable promise will make Microsoft’s virtualization format software freely available to all.
It would be interesting to see someone test out the SQL Server Hosting Toolkit for publishing their scientific data - imagine capturing it locally and then publishing it to a Science SQL hosting service, so all the other researchers in your space could test out their algorithms on your datasets.
Details on the Database Publishing Wizard as well as the download can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=sqlhost&title=Database%20Publishing%20Wizard.Future plans for the Hosting Toolkit can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=sqlhost&title=Project%20Roadmap
From Laurent Bonnet [MS France] blog:
Very interesting addtion for web hosters who want to simplify their customers procedures on Shared or Dedicated hosted solutions using ASP.Net 2.0 and SQL Server 2005: Microsoft has just launched the SQL Server Hosting Toolkit with the release of the Database Publishing Wizard Community Technology Preview 1.The objective of the SQL Server Hosting Toolkit is to enable a great experience around hosted SQL Server. The Database Publishing Wizard works toward this mission by making it easy to upload a database from a development box up to a shared hoster. In its first incarnation, the Database Publishing Wizard is a command line tool that generates a T-SQL script designed to be executed in the script execution windows provided by most hosters in their database management consoles.In the coming months, Microsoft will be adding a GUI, integrate it into Visual Studio, and enable seamless deployment from the tool to an upload service hosters will be able to deploy.
Source: Web Hosting, French Way - by Laurent Bonnet [MS France] : SQL Server Hosting Toolkit... Launched !
Saw this on Developer Blog - it would be great to see the managed MPI wrapper....
Managed MPI Wrapper MPI is a widely used programming interface to develop parallel applications. .Net is also the one of the most popular framework used in Windows Platform. How can we develop a MPI application under the .Net framework? Here is the answer: Managed MPI Wrapper. The basic idea for this framework is wrapper the MPI APIs into a simple managed library. The developer can benefit from both the productivity features of .Net and the maturity of MPI APIs. Currently, I am working on creating a prototyping.
MPI is a widely used programming interface to develop parallel applications. .Net is also the one of the most popular framework used in Windows Platform. How can we develop a MPI application under the .Net framework?
Here is the answer: Managed MPI Wrapper.
The basic idea for this framework is wrapper the MPI APIs into a simple managed library. The developer can benefit from both the productivity features of .Net and the maturity of MPI APIs. Currently, I am working on creating a prototyping.
Source: Developer Blog : Managed MPI Wrapper
Opportunity for folks to give the Port 25 folks some feedback....
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:10 AM by MichaelF Recently we posted about http://www.devreadiness.com, an online resource for Vista Application Compatibility questions/guidance. After posting we received some feedback that with some changes they could become much more useful for Open Source Developers. Based on this feedback we are going to create a set of resources specifically tailored for the open source developer/ISV. This is where we would like some help. We can move forward with this based on our understanding and assumptions or we can involve our community and ensure that the “right” changes are being made. To this end we are seeking a small group of volunteers who would be willing to act as a review/guidance team. This endeavor should not be tremendously time consuming. We anticipate a single review/feedback cycle of existing content to get us started. After an initial pass we will request one to two more review cycles to ensure we are on the right path.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:10 AM by MichaelF
Recently we posted about http://www.devreadiness.com, an online resource for Vista Application Compatibility questions/guidance. After posting we received some feedback that with some changes they could become much more useful for Open Source Developers. Based on this feedback we are going to create a set of resources specifically tailored for the open source developer/ISV.
This is where we would like some help. We can move forward with this based on our understanding and assumptions or we can involve our community and ensure that the “right” changes are being made. To this end we are seeking a small group of volunteers who would be willing to act as a review/guidance team. This endeavor should not be tremendously time consuming. We anticipate a single review/feedback cycle of existing content to get us started. After an initial pass we will request one to two more review cycles to ensure we are on the right path.
Source: Port 25 : Developer Resources for Open Source Software on Vista
Marty Humphrey and his team have released an .NET implementation of many of the popular services provided by the Globus Toolkit.
Globus Interoperability for the .NET Platform This site provides client and server implementations of two of the most popular services provided by the Globus Toolkit. The Globus Toolkit v. 4 (GT4) implementation of GridFTP, a data transfer protocol, and GRAM, a job execution protocol, are widely deployed in many scientific grids. We present implementations of both GridFTP and GRAM, services and clients, that run on the Microsoft .NET Framework and are interoperable with their GT4 counterparts.
This site provides client and server implementations of two of the most popular services provided by the Globus Toolkit. The Globus Toolkit v. 4 (GT4) implementation of GridFTP, a data transfer protocol, and GRAM, a job execution protocol, are widely deployed in many scientific grids. We present implementations of both GridFTP and GRAM, services and clients, that run on the Microsoft .NET Framework and are interoperable with their GT4 counterparts.
Source: GridFTP and GRAM for the .NET Framework