January 2008 - Posts

Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series}
29 January 08 08:50 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Now this is different and refreshing - maybe we need some comics highlighting the work of eScientists.   Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series} Imagine a daily web comic that adapts tech stories from actual IT Professionals and Developers - a web Read More...

TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider
28 January 08 09:15 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Ran across this post on Charlie Calvert's Community Blog using TerraServer's Web Services with LINQ...why is this interesting to me - many moons ago (before .NET was officially launched) I approached Tom Barclay who was running TerraServer and convinced Read More...

Filed under: Software, eScience, Research

Silverlight-based cycle stealing
28 January 08 12:12 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Savas and I had talked about this idea of using Silverlight-based cycle stealing and wondered how well it would work. It's good to see this article on CodeProject about Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight by Daniel Vaughan . Read More...

Filed under: Software, eScience, Cool Software, Research, WinHPC, Silverlight, Parallel Computing

Parallel Computing Developer Center
28 January 08 10:37 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

There's a Parallel Computing Developer Center up on MSDN that is great resource for finding ways to solve parallel computing challenges. I've highlighted a couple of the interesting articles that scientists/researchers will find interesting in dealing Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Parallel Computing

Windows HPC Server 2008 - 1 day training
28 January 08 10:16 AM | eScience | 2 Comments   

Here's a good opportunity to get the latest information on the next version of the Windows Compute Cluster - now named Windows HPC Server 2008. If you're wondering why Windows HPC Server 2008 is a hot topic - take a look at the performance increases they've Read More...

Filed under: Software, WinHPC

Bill's Last Day Video
23 January 08 08:50 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

In case you didn't get to see the video of Bill's Last day from CES...here's a link to it on Soapbox - the cameo's are great.... Bill's Last Day Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

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Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal
22 January 08 07:36 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Here's a link to a Russian based project - where they are mining environmental data archives.  It even has NASA WorldWind visualization plugins....there is also a web based test site .  Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Cool Software, Research, Science, Search, Environment

January update to Science @ Microsoft
19 January 08 12:02 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

The January update to the Technical Computing @ Microsoft site ( www.microsoft.com/science ) is up: Spotlighting the SwissEx Collaboration with EPFL. A feature entitled “Determining Fundamental Principles of RNA Structure with Comparative Sequence Read More...

Filed under: eScience, Research, WinHPC, Collaboration, Science

MPI.NET: High-Performance C# Library for Message Passing
17 January 08 05:11 PM | eScience | 2 Comments   

It's great to see a high-performance .net library for writing MPI apps in C#.  It would be good to hear about implementations using MPI.net and how it works.  It would also be neat to see someone test out MPI.net with F# .  Can't wait to Read More...

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