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/. and misreporting
We all know and love Slashdot for its anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux commentary. I follow it almost every day and I always smile with the Microsoft-related posts. It’s ok, it’s fun. I still haven’t digested the blue pill I was given when…
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New toy
Just bought the new 8GB Zune (the black one). I’ve finally moved away from the iPod (not that I don’t like them… it’s just that my old 60GB iPod was failing on me). Can’t wait to get the 80GB Zune…
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"The Web as the Platform for Research"
I am at SuperComputing 07 and just gave an invited talk on “The Web as the Platform for Research” at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop. I don’t think I did the best job possible at the presentation but I…
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Students and learning
Great video of how students see education today. Krishna Madhavan showed this as part of a presentation at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop, part of SuperComputing07. Krishna‘s talk was great and his blog seems very interesting. Subscribed.(Update: trying to…
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myExperiment is live
David De Roure and co told me today that the myExperiment site is going live today. They are updating the DNS entries so that myexperiment.org points to their beta site, so please be patient with them. This represents an excellent…
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How can you not smile…
… with these kids? 🙂 Lots of positive energy. I love it! (thanks to Becky and her Facebook FunWall)
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Great news about Dan Reed
Dan Reed is joining Microsoft. I am really looking forward to interacting with him in the area of large-scale systems and science.
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BBC and advertising
Well, I guess it was bound to happen: BBC online ‘features’ ads. It’s the sign of our online times, right? I just can’t comprehend how this ad business model has grown to a multi-billion revenue stream. I understand that I…
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Bringing the community together and a social experiment
Hey all. Dan and I were discussing about the Facebook-related prototyping I am planning for November and we realized that we don’t have a global eScience group over there. He just created one. Let’s see whether we can get the…
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Feedback from Bill Gates 🙂
Remember the first thinkweek paper, which I co-authored, I mentioned some time ago? Well, we got feedback from Bill Gates and it was positive 🙂 Bill only comments on a very small percentage of the thinkweek papers he receives. That…
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Matrix Ping Pong
Cherie sent me this… Funny…
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Whistler/Blackcomb, here I come
Just bought my 10-day pass Edge card for Whistler/Blackcomb. So, at least 10 days of skiing there. Can’t wait to try my new skis, bindings, and boots. I am planning to do lots of skiing this year. Of course I…
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Fluxnet visualization using Silverlight
My group is interacting with scientists from all disciplines. We are trying to help them in their research endeavors through the use/application of technology. It is therefore necessary for us to keep informed about all technologies available; it is only…
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"eScience Ramblings"
Hugo Hiden, NEReSC‘s technical director, has started a blog, called “eScience Ramblings”, where he records his experiences with using Microsoft‘s technologies while building solutions for eScience. I am really looking forward to reading more. So far it’s been great. I…
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Parallel FX – Another step towards implicit parallelism
🙂 “Work stealing”, “loop decomposition” at runtime to take advantage of the available hardware parallelism, “data parallelism”, “declarative programming for parallel computing”… It’s soooo cool to see these concepts really making it to mainstream computing. Paul and I worked on…