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TAU – perf tuning for HPC
TAU , the performance tuning OSS software for HPC on Linux has been successfully made available to support Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008.  Please see release note section 5. Read More...
Posted 25 November 09 01:03 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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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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Achieving Climate Sustainability – Article in American Meteorological Society
Bill Gail has written a thoroughly thought provoking piece Achieving Climate Sustainability in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.  One of the things I really like about Bill is that he understands the challenge of climate sustainability Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 10:29 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Project Gemini – Videos available
I previously posted about using Project Gemini as a tool for scientific analysis – as a quick way to learn about them and see them in action, take a look at the one minute Gemini videos by Donald Farmer .  One of the latest videos is about using Read More...
Posted 26 August 09 07:35 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009
TIME magazine has the WorldWide Telescope WebClient ( Silverlight ) on their list of 50 Best Websites for 2009.  That puts WWT in with sites like Flickr, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Amazon, and even PhotoSynth – not bad for the very small team we have Read More...
Posted 24 August 09 01:29 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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Mysterious object being built in garage
Deep in one of the garages on campus – I ran across this project being built…a modern Stonehenge? maybe the spinal tap version of Stonehenge? View Full Album Read More...
Posted 21 August 09 08:54 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
Instant Search - The Real Live Search Bing API experiment
If you’d like to see instant results while you’re typing in your search query try out “ The Real Live Search ” from Long Zheng from istartedsomething – it uses the fast Bing AJAX APIs and the JSON results to give you information as you type.  It’s Read More...
Posted 21 August 09 08:41 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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Environment and Energy Workshop at Faculty Summit 2009
For the past two days at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit , we hare hosted a Environment and Energy Workshop to look at areas where computing and IT can help solve some of these grand challenges.  Output from the workshop will be posted on the Read More...
Posted 14 July 09 04:35 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Michael Jackson Memorial Concert Live in HD on the Web
Just heard that the Michael Jackson Memorial concert will be broadcast live in HD over the Web.  They will be using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight , the technology that delivered on-demand video for the 2008 Sumer Olympics on NBCOlympics.com Read More...
Posted 07 July 09 08:14 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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