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Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
23 May 08 08:32 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is available on Microsoft Connect and Ryan Waite goes into detail on much of the new stuff.  I'm really excited to start seeing scientists utilize and evaluate the new version - I think many of the new pieces especially 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...
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...
Supercomputing 07
22 November 07 08:24 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Was at Supercomputing last week - overall the event went really well.  There was also a few announcements from the HPC team - the big one being the name and beta availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 and the new banners. Attended part of the Manycore Read More...
2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI
04 May 07 02:02 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Announcing the 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/escience2007/ October 21-23 2007 The Friday Center for Continuing Education UNC-Chapel Hill 100 Friday Center Drive Chapel Hill NC 27599-1020 The use of computers Read More...
Microsoft Research uses CCS to search for HIV targets
28 February 07 05:00 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
It good to see the work David Heckerman and Carl Kadie from MSR are doing written up in a case study talking about the benefits of using the Windows Compute Cluster Server... From Doug Lindsey's blog... Microsoft Research uses CCS to search for HIV targets Read More...
The BioTeam Delivers Informatics Solution on Microsoft CCS
19 December 06 07:08 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
This is great news for the Bio researchers...info at iNquiry Bioinformatics Portal for Microsoft Compute Cluster Server - they also mention the "The Scientific Desktop" "The scientific desktop" aims to build a bridge between common computing tools and Read More...
DigiPede talk on Concurrent SW Dev at .NET Dev Event Redmond
08 December 06 03:02 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I just found out that on Monday, Dec 11, Kim Greenlee from Digipede will be presenting a technical talk on Concurrent Software Development at the next .NET Developers Association meeting in Redmond. The meeting is at 7pm in Bldg 40, Steptoe Room on the Read More...
HPC Leaders Demonstrate Interoperability Using OGF Specs
15 November 06 01:49 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Saw this demo while at SC06 today - this is great news for folks looking to use HPC clusters. The Open Grid Forum (OGF) announced its interoperability demonstration at the Supercomputing 2006 (SC06) conference showing the work being done towards interoperable Read More...
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