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Supporting the Scholarly Communication Lifecycle
Lee Dirks has been leading our efforts in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle. It’s been an absolutely pleasure working with Lee since he joined Technical Computing, which has now been integrated with External Research in Microsoft Research. He’s been a great…
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.NetMap available on CodePlex
.NetMap start a series of announcements by our group today. Marc Smith and his team have done a great job at delivering a network visualization plugin for Excel; and it’s open source. NetMap is a pair of applications for viewing…
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Open Web Foundation
Google, BBC, Facebook, and other big names sponsor the “Open Web Foundation”. They are ignoring W3C and OASIS! Ok… you have to pay to participate in those organizations. But IETF???? Dare Obasanjo has some more detailed commentary on the announcement.…
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Amazon’s recent S3 problems
A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3’s recent 9-hour downtime from the people at the center of it. (via Werner Vogel’s blog)
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“Ahead in the Cloud” – Werner Vogel’s
Werner Vogel just finished his “Ahead in the Cloud” talk here at the DISC 08 workshop. As always, very entertaining. Amazon is light years ahead of the rest of the industry in thinking about and delivering utility computing to the…
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The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop
My friend and colleague Kris Tolle is responsible this year for all things related to the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop. This meeting has been getting better and better with each year. The community amazes me every time with the wonderful…
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Three day of Mapping and Reducing…
I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF-funded workshop on how to use Hadoop to write map-reduce computations. I already know map-reduce of course but it’s interesting to get some hands-on experience on…
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Amusing analogy of Google’s daily processing power
20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)… “I never knew Google was THIS massive!“
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Yup… Resources and WS are making the news again
I remember the conversation going something like this a couple of years ago(paraphrasing for dramatization purposes :-)… – (My manager at the time:) Savas, we’d like to ask you to drive the latest technical efforts on WS-Transfer. – Eh? You…
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“So You Say You Want to Kill XML…”
Great post by Ted Neward on Google‘s Protocol Buffers (see also my previous short comment). (via Stefan’s post)
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“Cloud Services Continuum” – Great post by Robert
As I catch up with my blog feeds after having wrongly configured Outlook, which left me without updates for more than two weeks, I came across this great post by Robert of Digipede fame. Great little summary! “The diagram to…
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New toy on order
As those close to me know, I love photography. Unfortunately, my Canon EOS 300D Digital SLR got so wet while I was queuing at Glastonbury that it stopped working. So, I had to buy a new camera. After doing some…
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REST anti-patterns
Jim pointed me to Stefan’s article on “REST anti-patterns“, which I somehow missed*. Very very nice indeed! I particularly liked the following note: The usual standard disclaimer applies: REST, the Web, and HTTP are not the same thing; REST could…
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Google’s “Protocol Buffers”
Yes, exactly what we need… another IDL data exchange format… “protocol buffers“.
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After Glastonbury, in London at Jim’s
Glastonbury was absolutely fantastic. I really really enjoyed it. It rained on Thursday and Friday but Saturday and Sunday were gorgeous. The sun came out and allowed everyone to walk around, sit on the grass, and really enjoy the atmosphere…