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Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC
Now what computational scientist wouldn’t want one of these under their desk.  I like the tagline, “putting ‘work’ back into workstation” . Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor If you thought Windows 7 was just for mere Read More...
Posted 12 November 09 07:41 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery .  The book focuses on the change of all sciences moving from observational, to theoretical, to computational and now to the Read More...
Posted 16 October 09 10:39 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Amazon Web Services support Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset
Now that AWS is supporting SDSS, there is probably useful integration between the Worldwide Telescope and the SDSS datasets that can be leveraged, beyond what is currently supported - such as seeing the all the known galaxies in a 3D view – seeing the Read More...
Posted 29 September 09 02:11 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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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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SciScope app and code available for download
Earlier today the code behind the SciScope site was made available at SciScope.CodePlex.com.  This enables others to make their datasets/repositories available and allow others to discover, download and utilize their data in a simple to use website.     Read More...
Posted 15 July 09 04:47 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Project Tuva: Richard Feynman is now available to all.
Project Tuva , an enhanced video player showcasing Richard Feynman’s “Messenger” lectures is available for all to try out.  It’s the way I’d like to view talks and related information – check it out.  Not only does it allow for web links, images, Read More...
Posted 15 July 09 11:15 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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eScience Workshop 2009 – Call for Papers
The 2009 eScience Workshop will be held at the Gates Center for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA,  October 15-17, 2009.  The call for papers closes on July 31, 2009 . Call for Papers We invite contributions from Read More...
Posted 06 July 09 10:48 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Citizen Science Impact: Hanny’s Voorwerp and the Galaxy Zoo
If you ever wonder what how normal citizens can have an impact in science – take a listen to the latest Podcast from 365 Days of Astronomy and how a mild manner school teacher from the Netherlands found a strange object while participating in Galaxy Zoo Read More...
Posted 21 May 09 08:51 by Dan Fay | 1 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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Math and equations in Office
One of the most hidden features in Word 2007 is the equation editor – it allows you to input equations using the linear format and the equations that are generated are truly visualizing appealing.  There are some videos showing the use of equation Read More...
Posted 08 May 09 10:11 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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new CloudApp(): Azure™ Developer Challenge
The Azure folks have setup the new CloudApp () challenge – I’d like to see some Science apps created on Azure and see how it changes the way to work with different datasets.  new CloudApp() - The Azure™ Services Platform Developer Challenge What Read More...
Posted 05 May 09 09:53 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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100 hours of Astronomy at Galaxy Zoo – Join in
As part of IYA - Galaxy Zoo is working on 1 million classification clicks in 100 hours – ends on Sunday April 5th.  Right now they are just over halfway there…join in and help out.  Celebrating 100 hours of Astronomy The International Year of Read More...
Posted 02 April 09 08:34 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight
Yesterday the joint press release went out on the collaboration and Space Act Agreement we’re been working on with NASA for sometime.  We’re really excited about working with NASA to process many datasets like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Read More...
Posted 25 March 09 01:53 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, Read More...
Posted 11 March 09 10:50 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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