I meant to do an entry on this paper by Stuart Ozer (MSR) and David Kim & David Baker (Rosetta@Home) months ago...it's a great way to integrate SQL Reporting services w/ something like Rosetta@Home, and provide really great service for not only the community users - but also for the researchers using the system. Below is the architecture diagram...
Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants and Researchers in Community Computing Projects Stuart Ozer; David Kim; David Baker February 2007 Available Documents:Word 638 Kb PDF 482 Kb A new generation of computationally intensive scientific research projects relies on volunteers from around the world contributing idle computer time to calculate mathematical models. Many of these projects utilize a common architecture to manage the scheduling and distribution of calculations and collection of results from participants. User engagement is critical to the success of these projects, and feedback to participants illustrating their role in the project’s progress is known to increase interest and strengthen the community. This article describes how one project -- University of Washington’s Rosetta@Home, which predicts and designs the folded conformations of proteins and protein complexes -- created a web-based, on-demand reporting system that graphically illustrates a user or team’s contributions to the project. The reporting service is also useful to the project scientists in assessing the utility of alternative models and computational techniques. The system relies on a comprehensive database platform that includes tools for data integration, data management, querying and web-based reporting. The reporting components integrate seamlessly with the rest of the project’s data and web infrastructure, and the report pages have proven to be popular among both participants and lab members.
Stuart Ozer; David Kim; David Baker
February 2007
Available Documents:Word 638 Kb PDF 482 Kb
A new generation of computationally intensive scientific research projects relies on volunteers from around the world contributing idle computer time to calculate mathematical models. Many of these projects utilize a common architecture to manage the scheduling and distribution of calculations and collection of results from participants. User engagement is critical to the success of these projects, and feedback to participants illustrating their role in the project’s progress is known to increase interest and strengthen the community. This article describes how one project -- University of Washington’s Rosetta@Home, which predicts and designs the folded conformations of proteins and protein complexes -- created a web-based, on-demand reporting system that graphically illustrates a user or team’s contributions to the project. The reporting service is also useful to the project scientists in assessing the utility of alternative models and computational techniques. The system relies on a comprehensive database platform that includes tools for data integration, data management, querying and web-based reporting. The reporting components integrate seamlessly with the rest of the project’s data and web infrastructure, and the report pages have proven to be popular among both participants and lab members.
Source: Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants and Researchers in Community Computing Projects
I've been using Mobile Search since it was initially released and I find it essential looking for places to eat, stores, phone numbers, etc - especially when traveling to other cities. I almost never call 411 anymore :-)
Mobile Search V2 released - Improved Navigation, Cache, Movie Searching, GPS, Traffic reporting and more! The Mobile Search team has released V2 of the rich client application for Windows Mobile, as well as a major update to the browser based interface. To get started, find your mobile device in the list below: Windows Mobile - Download by visiting http://wls.live.com from your devices browser. There are versions for WinMo 5 or later, as well as WinMo 2003 J2ME - Download by visiting http://wls.live.com Choose J2ME, then choose your device. Blackberry (beta) - Download by visiting http://wls.live.com and choosing US or UK. then choose your blackberry model. Everyone Else - If your phone has a browser (just about ANY browser will do) simply visit http://m.live.com/ There's nothing to download - just start searching! iPhone - Unfortunately I don't think Apple will permit you to install an application inside their walled garden, so you can't run even our J2ME client :-( You can however access the browser based version with one caveat. Browse to http://m.live.com When you do a search, hit "Go" on the soft-keyboard after entering your search terms as the normal search button is not active. The mobile search team will have a maintenance release shortly to address this issue. There is a FAQ here: http://mobile.search.live.com/client/faq.aspx
Mobile Search V2 released - Improved Navigation, Cache, Movie Searching, GPS, Traffic reporting and more!
The Mobile Search team has released V2 of the rich client application for Windows Mobile, as well as a major update to the browser based interface.
To get started, find your mobile device in the list below:
Windows Mobile - Download by visiting http://wls.live.com from your devices browser. There are versions for WinMo 5 or later, as well as WinMo 2003
J2ME - Download by visiting http://wls.live.com Choose J2ME, then choose your device.
Blackberry (beta) - Download by visiting http://wls.live.com and choosing US or UK. then choose your blackberry model.
Everyone Else - If your phone has a browser (just about ANY browser will do) simply visit http://m.live.com/ There's nothing to download - just start searching!
iPhone - Unfortunately I don't think Apple will permit you to install an application inside their walled garden, so you can't run even our J2ME client :-( You can however access the browser based version with one caveat. Browse to http://m.live.com When you do a search, hit "Go" on the soft-keyboard after entering your search terms as the normal search button is not active. The mobile search team will have a maintenance release shortly to address this issue.
There is a FAQ here: http://mobile.search.live.com/client/faq.aspx
Virtual Earth / Live Maps: Mobile Search V2 released - Improved Navigation, Cache, Movie Searching, GPS, Traffic reporting and more!
Thanks to Alex Szalay (JHU) for pointing me to GalaxyZoo - now you can help classify galaxies. This really neat...
Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking part, you'll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you'll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky. Why do we need you?The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognising patterns than a computer can ever be. Any computer program we write to sort our galaxies into categories would do a reasonable job, but it would also inevitably throw out the unusual, the weird and the wonderful. To rescue these interesting systems which have a story to tell, we need you.
Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking part, you'll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you'll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky.
Why do we need you?The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognising patterns than a computer can ever be. Any computer program we write to sort our galaxies into categories would do a reasonable job, but it would also inevitably throw out the unusual, the weird and the wonderful. To rescue these interesting systems which have a story to tell, we need you.
Source: Galaxy Zoo
Very cool demo of a Silverlight and a 2D Physics engine...
Silverlight 1.1 2D Physics May 22nd, 2007 · 19 Comments Are you tired of physics demos yet? I hope not because I’ve just made another one It’s using the Managed Bullet Physics library I ported to WPF, tweaked slightly to run with Silverlight 1.1. This might be the world’s first cross-platform physics demo! (umm, except Flade of course, and probably a million others I’m unaware of).
Are you tired of physics demos yet? I hope not because I’ve just made another one It’s using the Managed Bullet Physics library I ported to WPF, tweaked slightly to run with Silverlight 1.1. This might be the world’s first cross-platform physics demo! (umm, except Flade of course, and probably a million others I’m unaware of).
Source: Silverlight 1.1 2D Physics « Chris Cavanagh’s Blog
Check out the beautiful VE imagery of Niagara Falls, I ran across it on the VE blog...especially check out the interactive 3D version...you can even image using this to go "over the falls in barrel".
To appreciate this beautiful image of Niagara Falls we don't need to be aware of the image processing that went into creating it: UltraCam is flown and captures the imagery with a prescribed set of overlap Pre ortho processing - ingest formatting, pan-sharpening (mutispectral brought to panchromatic resolution), radiometric normalization (images brought to similar spectral range) Orthorectification (surface and camera distortions removed from imagery and images are geographically referenced to a coordinate system) Orthomosaic (individual ortho images seamed and color balanced together) Final radiometric look up table (final spectral adjustment applied to entire mosaic)
To appreciate this beautiful image of Niagara Falls we don't need to be aware of the image processing that went into creating it:
Virtual Earth / Live Maps: Does Microsoft Cork the Bat in Virtual Earth?
I wrote about the Data mining Addins previously - Data Mining for the rest of us... and now you can test it out via the Virtual hands-ons lab...glad to see this post by JamieMac...
Data Mining Virtual Hands-on Lab Now Available! For those of you who have been dying to try out the data mining addins we released earlier this year - here's your chance! Ok, scratch that, if you're reading my blog you've been there done that, but if there's that someone special who you know would love the addins and hadn't had the chance to get everything configured to give them a go, have I got a deal for you! Since the Data Mining Addins hands-on lab was ranked in the top 10 of all labs at TechEd (it was, in fact, #2), it earned a special distinction of being made available as an online hands-on lab where you can reserve 90 minutes of time to remotely operate machine to walk through the exercises. Try it out today!
For those of you who have been dying to try out the data mining addins we released earlier this year - here's your chance! Ok, scratch that, if you're reading my blog you've been there done that, but if there's that someone special who you know would love the addins and hadn't had the chance to get everything configured to give them a go, have I got a deal for you!
Since the Data Mining Addins hands-on lab was ranked in the top 10 of all labs at TechEd (it was, in fact, #2), it earned a special distinction of being made available as an online hands-on lab where you can reserve 90 minutes of time to remotely operate machine to walk through the exercises. Try it out today!
JamieMac's WebLog : Data Mining Virtual Hands-on Lab Now Available! Also, in other news, Donald in a fishbowl!
Wired Magazine has a really good article on the search for Jim Gray and his boat Tenacious and all the assets that were brought to bear on the search. All of us that have been touched and inspired by Jim still hold out hope that he will sail back into the harbor...
Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend It looked like a fine day for a sail. On Sunday, January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray woke up on his boat, a red 40-foot fiberglass cruiser called Tenacious. The water in Gashouse Cove, a cozy marina in San Francisco Bay, was nearly flat. The 63-year-old programmer phoned his wife, Donna Carnes, who was on an annual vacation with friends in Wisconsin. He said he was heading out to the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge 27 miles offshore, to scatter the ashes of his mother, Ann, who died in October. <...> Gray was one of the best and brightest in a generation of problem-solvers, and also one of the most humble. When conference hosts tried to introduce him as a database guru or god, he would say gently, "I'm just a programmer." Even his disappearance proved to be an act of mentoring, providing a template for networked search-and-rescue methods that may save countless lives in the future. But for now, his family, friends, and colleagues at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NASA, and laboratories all over the world are left unmoored.
Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
It looked like a fine day for a sail. On Sunday, January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray woke up on his boat, a red 40-foot fiberglass cruiser called Tenacious. The water in Gashouse Cove, a cozy marina in San Francisco Bay, was nearly flat. The 63-year-old programmer phoned his wife, Donna Carnes, who was on an annual vacation with friends in Wisconsin. He said he was heading out to the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge 27 miles offshore, to scatter the ashes of his mother, Ann, who died in October.
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Gray was one of the best and brightest in a generation of problem-solvers, and also one of the most humble. When conference hosts tried to introduce him as a database guru or god, he would say gently, "I'm just a programmer." Even his disappearance proved to be an act of mentoring, providing a template for networked search-and-rescue methods that may save countless lives in the future. But for now, his family, friends, and colleagues at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NASA, and laboratories all over the world are left unmoored.
Source: Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
The latest version of TechNet Flash has some good pointers to details on SQL Server 2008 and the CTP available for download. Some of the things scientists might find interesting are:
Organizations today thrive on data. Understanding data trends and having a vision of the requirements of your data-driven applications is crucial in meeting the needs of these applications going forward. For a view of the Microsoft data platform vision, and to see how Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will deliver on that vision, the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Product Overview white paper is a great place to start. And Microsoft recently released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of SQL Server 2008 for you to download and provide your feedback to the SQL Server development team. For a quick look at the key improvement pillars in the SQL Server 2008 CTP, click over to the SQL Server 2008 June CTP Highlights. Over the next month, we are also featuring a series of SQL Server 2008 TechNet Webcasts including the SQL Server 2008 Data Management Overview on July 26. Check out the Webcasts section below for the entire series.
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/subscriptions/flash/archive/07-25-07.htm
Ran across this OneNote PowerToy on Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog that allows you to output Matlab to OneNote - really cool - allows you to capture your process in one place.
Matlab to OneNote - Thanks to Stephen Lawrence I just got an email from Stephen Lawrence who shared with me a Matlab app/script which will publish to OneNote. For example say you have the following in Matalb: fprintf('Hello World\n');figure;plot(magic(10)); And then you wanted to publish it to OneNote, you can with just this one command: OneNotePublish('test.m'); Steve explains it all here: I took your Send file to OneNote powertoy code and adapted it for Matlab. I have attached my code below so that you can get an idea of how it works. I had to switch from creating Matlab XML to Matlab HTML...the result works well. All I had to do to publish my file in OneNote was type: OneNotePublish('test.m'); in the command window.I got the resulting page: You can download the source for this by downloading it here: Matlab2OneNote. Nice work Steve! Thanks a bunch for telling me about it!
I just got an email from Stephen Lawrence who shared with me a Matlab app/script which will publish to OneNote. For example say you have the following in Matalb:
fprintf('Hello World\n');figure;plot(magic(10));
And then you wanted to publish it to OneNote, you can with just this one command:
OneNotePublish('test.m');
Steve explains it all here:
I took your Send file to OneNote powertoy code and adapted it for Matlab. I have attached my code below so that you can get an idea of how it works. I had to switch from creating Matlab XML to Matlab HTML...the result works well. All I had to do to publish my file in OneNote was type: OneNotePublish('test.m'); in the command window.I got the resulting page:
I took your Send file to OneNote powertoy code and adapted it for Matlab. I have attached my code below so that you can get an idea of how it works.
I had to switch from creating Matlab XML to Matlab HTML...the result works well. All I had to do to publish my file in OneNote was type:
in the command window.I got the resulting page:
You can download the source for this by downloading it here: Matlab2OneNote. Nice work Steve! Thanks a bunch for telling me about it!
Source: Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog : Matlab to OneNote - Thanks to Stephen Lawrence
I previously mentioned the release of the BioTools by David Heckerman and Carl Kadie from MSR - here's 3 papers that utilize that work.
The first and third are advances in HIV vaccine design. The second is an advance in identifying genotype-phenotype correlations for personalized medicine.
Registration for the 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI is now open!
Registration at the website www.mses07.net
October 21-23, 2007
The Friday Center for Continuing EducationUNC-Chapel Hill100 Friday Center DriveChapel Hill NC 27599-1020
It is no longer possible to do science without doing computing.
The use of computers creates many challenges as it expands the realm of the possible in scientific research and many of these challenges are common to researchers in different areas. The insights gained in one area may catalyze change and accelerate discovery in many others. This workshop is explicitly cross-disciplinary, with the goal of bringing together scientists from different areas to share their research and experiences of how computing is shaping their work, providing new insights and changing what can be done in science. The focus is on the research, and the technologies that make that research possible.
Co-chairs:
Dan Reed, Director, Renaissance Computing Institute
Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President for Technical Computing, Microsoft Corporation
We would like to invite contributions from any area of eScience; examples include:
All registered attendees are invited to submit an abstract for consideration as a talk at the Workshop. Abstracts will be evaluated by the program committee and those not selected for presentation will be offered poster presentation as an alternative.
Abstracts are accepted online athttps://cmt.research.microsoft.com/escience07/
Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2007Notification of Acceptance: August 20, 2007
Attendance at this event is FREE. Attendees are only responsible for their personal travel and hotel accommodation. Links to hotels and directions to the Friday Conference Center are on the conference website.