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Sphere Project - A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display
29 July 08 05:07 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Today at the MSR Faculty Summit – I was able to play with the Sphere Project, and it’s a real unique way to interact with information/data.  It makes you think what data could be place in a system like this and how to interact with it.  We’ll Read More...
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...
Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
03 April 08 04:35 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
There is a new article on the MSR Cambridge project on Skomer Island - Microsoft scientists unveil new technology to give early warning of sensitive species’ response to changing environments . Also interesting is the use of the ScatterWeb .NET SDK from Read More...
TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
28 March 08 10:00 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I realized I hadn't posted the link to the TED Talk on the WorldWide Telescope   Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong gi ve an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds Read More...
Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
28 March 08 09:16 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The Windows HPC team has just made public their Computational Finance Pilot where they are enabling execution of computational fiance models for university courses - there is a good paper on the implementation.  It would be good to see if the same Read More...
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...
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...
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...
HD View updates - now supports FireFox
10 September 07 10:24 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
I think I missed the announcement, but I just saw off of Blake's The Road to Know Where blog the HD View updates are out with the support for FireFox. HD View is a new viewer developed by Microsoft Research's Interactive Visual Media group to aid in the Read More...
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RESTful architecture of Microsoft Robotics Studio « Jon Udell
09 August 07 07:14 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Ran across Jon Udell's screencast on the Robotics Studio and is' RESTful architecture...I've seen the demos in person and they are quite impressive. Also, I've run across a number of folks that have used the Robotics Studio infrastructure for modeling Read More...
Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
11 July 07 09:11 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback in Community Computing Projects
09 July 07 04:18 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
Virtual Earth MapCruncher new release
27 June 07 10:22 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
There is a new release of MapCruncher...check it out... MapCruncher lets users quickly convert existing maps into an online format that’s as fast and easy to use as Virtual Earth. PDF and raster maps can be converted in minutes just by clicking on corresponding Read More...
Microsoft Research Releases Tools to Help Science Progress Toward an AIDS Vaccine
14 June 07 01:17 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
You know there are times when superlatives don't do justice - I'll just leave it at this - David and Carl are doing great things - take a look at the app and the code...and the cool part is that the PhyloD code will run on the DigiePede Network ..... Read More...
SecPAL v1.1 Now Available
14 June 07 12:33 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just got a note from Jason that SecPAL 1.1 is available - this is great - take a look at the codeplex site for more details - Jason/Blair and team, you're doing great things...let's see if the community recognize what you've been up to... Summary of New Read More...
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