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Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
21 August 09 09:34 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench available for download
14 July 09 04:58 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
08 May 09 10:46 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
OLAP and Scientific Data
20 August 08 03:57 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I thought it might be a good time to pull together some relevant papers and links. I believe OLAP is ideal to help analyze large quantities of data including Read More...
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP - Released
29 July 08 01:42 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
PHP developers can now integrate data from SQL Server now that the driver is available for download .  Also glad to see that it works with SQL Server Express edition. It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Read More...
Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet
17 July 08 04:19 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Always looking for interesting papers that educate you on domains - really enjoyed this paper... Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet SQL Server Technical Article Writers: Isaac Kunen Summary: This paper is an introduction Read More...
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[Papers] Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend; There is Life beyond Files
08 April 08 11:00 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
In a discussion I had today around ways to advance a scientific problem I was reminded of Jim Gray and Gerd Heber's trilogy - Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend .  The three papers are really a good resource for Read More...
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SQL Server 2008 info
27 July 07 03:47 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The latest version of TechNet Flash has some good pointers to details on SQL Server 2008 and the CTP available for download. Some of the things scientists might find interesting are: Language Integrated Query (LINQ) enables developers to issue queries Read More...
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Data Mining Virtual Hands-on Lab Now Available!
23 July 07 04:37 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I wrote about the Data mining Addins previously - Data Mining for the rest of us... and now you can test it out via the Virtual hands-ons lab...glad to see this post by JamieMac... Data Mining Virtual Hands-on Lab Now Available! For those of you who have 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 | 1 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 Labs - giving away a Camera
16 May 07 02:31 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just saw that the Virtual Labs folks are giving away a camera for using the labs... I'd recommend the Business Intelligence: Excel 2007 PivotTables and Analysis Services Creating a Distributed Application with C# Introducing Content Types for Microsoft Read More...
Dynameomics - Protein folds by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
10 May 07 09:54 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Valerie Daggett and her team at UW have put up a site with their simulations of over 300 proteins for a combined simulation time of more than 35 microseconds. This site contains information for their top 30 targets. The other interesting part is that Read More...
Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 (Excel & Visio)
28 February 07 05:08 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
I think of the Data Mining Addins for Excel 2007 , as data mining tools for common man - they allow anyone to use SQL Server Analysis Services without having to know how to program the backend. It allows you to look for Key Influencers, Detect Categories, Read More...
SQL Server Starter Data Schema
18 January 07 10:14 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Very cool - it would be great to see some scientific reserach schemas added to the list... SQL Server 2005 Express Data Schemas Deploying SQL Server Express in real-world environments This data schema series is designed for new database administrators Read More...
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