June 2008 - Posts

WorldWide Telescope is a powerful educational tool — a way of telling compelling stories about the Universe.
30 June 08 01:04 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

An On the Issues Essay came out last week featuring Alyssa Goodman , Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University.  Highlights how WWT can be used to not only browse and view the Universe – but can be a powerful tool to allow Astronomers to get to Read More...

Filed under: WWT, Article

National Geographic and Stonehenge in Photosynth
19 June 08 10:35 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Video showing Stonehenge in Photosynth off the National Geographic Magazine site  - Stonehenge Photosynth: 3-D Exploration Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

Filed under: Cool Software, Video

DeepEarth - VE and Silverlight Deep Zoom
18 June 08 02:09 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Just ran across he DeepEarth OpenSource community project on CodePlex - bringing SilverLight 2 Deep Zoom to Virtual Earth - it pans and zooms really smooth.  Test it out or check out the video Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay Read More...

Filed under: Cool Software, Video, Silverlight, Open Source, Virtual Earth

HPC 2008 & NCSA – 23rd on Top500 – Great Efficiency
18 June 08 11:01 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The Top500 list was released and the cluster at NCSA came in at 23rd running a beta of Windows HPC 2008 .  What’s really interesting is the 77% efficiency and that it only took 4 hours to install the 1200 node cluster. Press Article - Windows HPC Read More...

Filed under: Cool Software, Research, WinHPC