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Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini” , I was blown away by the technology and innovation created by SQL and Excel teams and that held up when I was able to test it out on my own.  It will be especially useful for scientists that Read More...
Posted 21 August 09 09:34 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench available for download
Project Trident CTP is now available for download .  Project Trident is a scientific workflow workbench MSR External Research has been working on for the past few years, which allows scientists to analyze large, diverse datasets.  It’s built Read More...
Posted 14 July 09 04:58 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
Graywulf is the natural evolution of Beowulf Clusters – it brings together HPC clusters and databases to do efficient processing and data management.  It’s name and design also pays homage to Jim Gray – who helped  champion the use of relational Read More...
Posted 08 May 09 10:46 by Dan Fay | 3 Comments   
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Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
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 Read More...
Posted 11 July 07 09:11 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback in Community Computing Projects
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 Read More...
Posted 09 July 07 04:18 by Dan Fay | 3 Comments   
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Dynameomics - Protein folds by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Valerie Daggett and her team at UW have put up a site with their simulations of over 300 proteins for a combined simulation time of more than 35 microseconds. This site contains information for their top 30 targets. The other interesting part is that Read More...
Posted 10 May 07 09:54 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 (Excel & Visio)
I think of the Data Mining Addins for Excel 2007 , as data mining tools for common man - they allow anyone to use SQL Server Analysis Services without having to know how to program the backend. It allows you to look for Key Influencers, Detect Categories, Read More...
Posted 28 February 07 05:08 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 CTP
So glad to see the CTP of Data Mining Add-ins available - I see this is as Data Mining for the rest of us... Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (Data Mining Add-ins) allow you take advantage of SQL Server 2005 predictive analytics Read More...
Posted 19 December 06 07:15 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Mundie: Science as a Web Service
I realized I forgot to post about Craig Mundie's article in the March/April Technology Review - Science as a Web Service XML can supercharge research. <...> XML is also one of the enabling technologies for grid computing and Web services, which Read More...
Posted 08 December 06 02:47 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Sim Water at UC Berkeley using OLAP cubes
I really like to see this collaboration between the researchers at UC Berkeley and Catharine van Ingen from MSR's eScience group - they are using data mining and cubes to help with the scientific research. This is really neat stuff... SIM WATER Environmental Read More...
Posted 14 November 06 03:54 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Data Mining for the rest of us...
If you've ever been interested in using datamining tools - but don't have the time to figure out how it all works...take a look at these add-ins for the Excel2007. With the data in a spreadsheet - you can kick off an analysis. I can see this a great way Read More...
Posted 07 November 06 11:58 by Dan Fay | 3 Comments   
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SQL Server Hosting Toolkit... Launched !
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 Read More...
Posted 19 October 06 09:25 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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