Here's a couple of interesting items from the SQL Server Data Mining newsletter
SQL Server 2005 Data Mining has an extensible framework that allows independent software developers to easily integrate new data mining algorithms and viewers into the product. The product team has provided in-depth technical articles, tutorials as well as sample source code for building "plug-in" algorithms and viewers. What was missing was a high-level overview of the technology that explains the benefits and overall architecture. We bring you a sneak preview of an upcoming MSDN article by Raman Iyer called "Plugging Into SQL Server Data Mining" that fills this gap.
Jamie MacLennan and Brian Welcker from the SQL Server team presented a talk on building smart applications like an intelligent call center using SQL Server 2005 Data Mining and Reporting Services at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference held in LA in September. You can view the PowerPoint presentation here.
Just heard that Sandro and team have released the Giano simuator - find it off of http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/ - Microsoft Giano.
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Giano is a dual-headed hardware simulator, it includes both CPU and HDL simulators. The CPU simulations provided are ARM, MIPS and PowerPC, the HDL simulator is Verilog. Giano faithfully simulates a complete Atmel EB63 evaluation board with an attached FPGA. Additionally, Giano simulates a display and a sound device that do not actually exist on the EB63 board. Giano is portable and extensible, it is easy to add CPUs and I/O modules to it. The HDL simulators currently supported are ModelSim and Icarus Verilog.
Blair Jennings, lead developer for the Collaboration Notebook Project was interviewed for .NET Rocks while they were in San Diego.
The webcasts from the MSR eScience Workshop are now available off the workshop website. All the talks were very good - here's a couple:
San Diego Supercomputer Center has made available their Community Technology Preview for the Collaboration Notebook – which is a Smart Client application to allow scientists to interact and track networked data services. The Collaboration Notebook is essentially is a framework to allow domain scientists to create interfaces and expose their datasets – it is built using .NET Framework 2.0 & SQL Server 2005 and uses ClickOnce for installation.
The project was supported via the MSR ER&P eScience Program.
This will be very useful to the scientific apps that had been trying to use BizTalk to handle some of the scientific computing workflows. I'm quite interested in seeing apps that try it out - I'm sure Paul Roe from QUT will be moving their Bioinformatics project over to it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workflow has all the info - including hands on labs and Try out Windows Workflow Foundation online at MSDN VirtualLab.
Beta 1 of the Windows Compute Cluster Solution was annouced today - www.microsoft.com/hpc. You can nominate yourself for the beta at - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/hpc/beta.mspx
The Microsoft Research eScience Workshop will be held Oct 6&7, 2005 in Redmond, WA.
Call for Presentations
We are soliciting presentations for the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2005. We are looking for contributions in the following areas:
The expected length of each presentation will be 30 minutes. If you would like to present, please provide the following information:
The deadline for submission of the Call for Presentations is August 26, 2005. Please send your information or questions to escience@microsoft.com. All applicants will be notified of acceptance of their presentation by September 2, 2005.
Back from vacation to lovely Sunriver, OR
Slides and webcasts from all the 2005 MSR Faculty Summit sessions are available at:
Today and tomorrow we’re hosting the MSR Faculty Summit 2005 where I’m handling the eScience sessions. These include the following sessions:
A couple of exciting announcements that came out today:
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…
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
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/
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.
Yesterday the five recipients of the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Program were announced. Congrats to Wei Wang from UNC who is also a MSR eScience RFP recipient for the A Comprehensive Protein Database Indexed by Spatial Motifs “MotifSpace” project.
I stopped by Georgia Tech today and visited with May Wang in the dept of BioMedical Engineering. May is one of the eScience RFP receiptants for the Advanced Biomedical Computing Systems for Cancer Research project and the folks in her Medical Informatics and BioImaging Lab are doing some really good work applying computing technologies to help solve cancer related research problems.
This week I’m on the road – yesterday attended the opening of the SDSC/CAL-IT2 Synthesis Center – a collaboration space for computational science and visualization. The SDSC Notebook Project which MSR sponsors as part of the eScience Program is now part of the Synthesis Center.
Today I’m at the International Conference on Computational Science 2005 (ICCS 2005): "Advancing Science through Computation" at Emory University in Atlanta. I’m here to give a short industry talk on “eScience with Databases and Web Services” and will highlight some of the eScience projects I support as well as push the use of databases exposed as web services and consumed by smart clients to help solve scientific research problems.
Had breakfast with Marty – who was at ICCS to present the paper Toward GT3 and OGSI.NET Interoperability: GRAM Support on OGSI.NET [pdf] and chair the Parallel and Distributed Computing session
Terraserver was arguably the 1st large database exposed via web services to the Internet for anyone to program against. I’m very interested in seeing how it’s been used in applications/web sites. Ran across another one where Mathematica uses it as one of their examples – Example: TerraServer Explorer
If you know of other apps using the TerraServer Web Services– let me know…
Cornell Theory Center is adding Web Services training to their current Windows HPC Cluster training – February 10-11, 2005 at the CTC-Manhattan training facility.
Web services enable certain classes of high-performance computing (HPC) applications, specifically those that are very loosely-coupled, to distribute computation and data from a desktop or mobile device to remote servers or "workers." Workshop topics include:Setting up and running Network Load Balancing (NLB)Writing and installing a Web Service and clientAdding an Excel front-end to a Web Service After attending the "Introduction to .NET and Web Services Technical Training Workshop," technologists will be able to design and deploy an integrated solution using Microsoft .NET.For technologists that are interested high-performance computing clusters for tightly coupled applications (Message Passing Interface or MPI-based clusters), CTC is offering a "Windows High-Performance Computing Technical Training" workshop at the same location on February 8-9.These workshops are for representatives of companies, universities, and government agencies who want to learn more about implementing and using high-performance computing on Windows-based clusters.
Web services enable certain classes of high-performance computing (HPC) applications, specifically those that are very loosely-coupled, to distribute computation and data from a desktop or mobile device to remote servers or "workers."
Workshop topics include:
After attending the "Introduction to .NET and Web Services Technical Training Workshop," technologists will be able to design and deploy an integrated solution using Microsoft .NET.
For technologists that are interested high-performance computing clusters for tightly coupled applications (Message Passing Interface or MPI-based clusters), CTC is offering a "Windows High-Performance Computing Technical Training" workshop at the same location on February 8-9.
A pretty cool research project – 3D Journal Project – demostraing live 3–D sketching on Tablet PC from Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab
TerraServer Bricks – A High Availability Cluster Alternative – this is a really good paper on experiences on moving from a SAN to cheap storage “bricks” using SATA disks. Food for thought for researchers with heavy data requirements..
Sat through a presentation on Paint.NET – really cool paint app built on .NET from students from WSU. They are coming out with a 2.0 version on Dec 17th.
This Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data, tool is great anytime you need to send presentations/documents to others...