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Glastonbury mudness 🙂
I am in London for some work-related meetings and relaxing after what was an excellent Glastonbury. Yes, it rained. Yes, everything I was carrying with me got really really wet. Yes, I got wet to the bone while waiting under the rain for more than 3 hours to catch the first train of the day out…
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Manycore Computing Workshop 07
The Manycore Computing Workshop 07, sponsored by my team, was a great success. It was great to see such a large part of the Parallel/Manycore Computing community coming together to exchange ideas and participate in discussions on “manycores for general purpose computing”. The first day of the workshop, the one opened to the delegates of…
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The "Research" Ribbon Tab
I’ve been out of coding practice (too much program management) so I decided to spend few hours today learning something new and starting a project I always wanted to do since I joined Tony Hey‘s group. The “Research” Ribbon tab will allow people to consume various research-related services and also access research-related utilities. In the…
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Computational tools to help with research for AIDS vaccine
As Dan says, there are really no words to describe this. Well done to the entire team over at MSR for doing this. If I wasn’t so busy with other things, there would have been a service somewhere in there to expose the functionality via SOAP/XML over HTTP 🙁 It’s still in my “to do”…
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SecPAL v1.1 is out
My pals over at the SecPAL team have released a new version of their framework for declaratively capturing authorization policies in large-scale distributed systems (yeah… yeah… ok… “Grid” systems 🙂 This is fantastic work. They just released a minor update that you should definitely check out. I hadn’t realized that they had created a CodePlex…
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Stealing Google laptops 🙂
I was recently pointed to this post by Richard Charkin who “stole” Google laptops as a way of protesting. Funny.
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Surfacing Computing
I can think of some great opportunities for scientific tools for data exploration/visualization, collaboration, social networking, etc. Just look at some of the example applications. Amazing stuff.
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Thinking of buying a motorcycle
I am seriously considering buying a motorcyle (touring or dual sport). I’ve been looking around and I think I like the BMWs. Dual sport: F640 GS R1200 GS Touring: F800 ST R1200 ST I think I like the R1200 GS more than the others but I wonder whether I should start with something smaller given…
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At Google’s offices in New York
After a long week of visits at Cornell, MIT, and Harvard, I had few days of holidays in New York (I love this city). As always when I am visiting a city (this was my second time in NY), I did lots of exploring and relaxing (no work! :-). It’s been fantastic. Today is the…