by kishi on December 21, 2006
After reading thru the previous blogs on HPC, someone might ask “What are some of the core components of HPC ?”. After all, once you’ve seen the outside of a Maserati or a Pantera DeTomaso, you’re not going to be satisfied just by ogling at it. Even after a test drive, the engineer in you will want to pop the hood and see what’s inside. Taking a similar approach let’s uncover some underlying HPC technologies... more
- Thursday, December 21, 2006
-
in:
Server Center
- kishi
by jcannon on December 21, 2006
If you missed our post yesterday, we started a fascinating conversation with the Robotics team about the impetus and design goals of new Robotics Studio, from distributed intelligence & network-based agents, to why web browsers can provide strong interfaces to robotics control. In the second part of this conversation, we get a sense of what early work is possible with demos being run in the Robotics... more
- Thursday, December 21, 2006
-
in:
Media
- jcannon
by jcannon on December 21, 2006
Just a quick note & pointer to Paul Thurrott's interview with Sam on Open Source, the Lab and why these intiatives are so important to Microsoft and to our customers. The interview was conducted back in October, but the podcast just went live at Windows IT Pro.... more
- Thursday, December 21, 2006
-
in:
Media
- jcannon
by jcannon on December 20, 2006
Last week, Microsoft released the first version of Robotics Studio, an SDK that contains three sets of tools; first, a common runtime architecture that can be used across robot devices; second, a set of programming tools that harness the power of Visual Studio, and a physics engine, to allow programmers to build & test their robots in simulated 3D space; and finally, a set of tutorials and sample code... more
- Wednesday, December 20, 2006
-
in:
Media
- jcannon
by anandeep on December 19, 2006
Archana has been working in the area of Empirical Computer Science (which relies on real data rather than theory or simulation) and some of her research is on computer crashes. She worked on collecting data on Windows crashes and is in general interested in the idea of using real data to advance Computer Science...... more
- Tuesday, December 19, 2006
-
in:
Media
- anandeep
by hjanssen on December 18, 2006
For the last few years I have seen more and more computer languages born, and in some cases die. And they all try to fix what their authors thought where missing in the languages that came before it. Another trend has been to make languages more accessible and easier to use to people who want to program of all walks of life. Imagine that! A language that does not require a 4 year degree to work in... more
- Monday, December 18, 2006
-
in:
Community
- hjanssen
by Bryan Kirschner on December 15, 2006
Web 2.0. Enterprise 2.0. Open Source 2.0. All the latest expectations for major revs of a good chunk of the information technology world seem to be heavily based on excitement about the possibilities for new forms of social networking and collaboration. Nobody has more to say about how this can be done right—or wrong—than Barry Wellman...
... more
- Friday, December 15, 2006
-
in:
Media
- Bryan Kirschner
by jcannon on December 13, 2006
It’s been an interesting nine months on Port 25. For those keeping track, the endeavors of our lab have taken us to Portland, New York, California, Thailand, Boston and more. We’ve had the chance to speak to some leading minds in the free and commercial open source world, including Eric Allman, Andi Gutmans, Tim O’Reilly, Matt Asay, Miguel de Icaza, among others. And there’s more to come. So we... more
- Wednesday, December 13, 2006
-
in:
Community
- jcannon
by Bryan Kirschner on December 12, 2006
It’s been just over a month since I last blogged on the law-and-open-source –analogy, and, despite a cool, unrelated entry in the middle, I feel my blog karma is running dangerously low… But—proving either that life is a journey of continuous learning and joyful surprise, or, more simply, that good things come to schlubs who drag their feet—last week not only did NPR run a story on legal apprenticeship... more
- Tuesday, December 12, 2006
-
in:
Community
- Bryan Kirschner
by billhilf on December 11, 2006
We all use technology every day. This is the list of the 15 technologies that I found most useful (and in some cases extremely fun) in 2006. It includes all sorts of things, devices, software, open source, Apple, Microsoft, and so on. It’s not about the manufacturer or the licensing model, just a list of the things I found useful and fun in 2006, and maybe give you some holiday shopping ideas for... more
- Monday, December 11, 2006
-
in:
Community
- billhilf
by MichaelF on December 05, 2006
Today Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS). We sent Hank to talk with Tres Hill, Sr Product Manager, to find out why this announcement is significant for IT professionals running heterogeneous environments...
... more
- Tuesday, December 05, 2006
-
in:
Media
- MichaelF
by anandeep on December 05, 2006
There's two things people figure out about me (mainly because I tell them!) - one that I am crazy about airplanes and two that I love stirring controversy! And in this blog I get an opportunity to bring those two favorite things together...... more
- Tuesday, December 05, 2006
-
in:
Community
- anandeep
by kishi on December 01, 2006
I started the first HPC blog (See “previous blog“) with an understanding that HPC is an area where there has been a surge of activity from a development/investment standpoint. So after getting a basic understanding behind the importance of why HPC matters, the next logical step that needed uncovering was “How to think” about HPC Infrastructure and tap into the “wisdom” behind managing it...... more
- Friday, December 01, 2006
-
in:
Community
- kishi