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What does my calendar have to do with parallelism?
I have been trying for ages to get together with Steve Maine for lunch. Since I changed groups, it’s almost impossible and since I left building 42, I don’t see him in the corridor for a short chat. Both our schedules are just crazy. His comment today, after we had identified a spot in our…
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"Workflows for e-Science: Scientific Workflows for Grids"
The book “Workflows for e-Science: Scientific Workflows for Grids” is now available. Amongst the chapters in the book, you’ll find one on the SC SSDL Protocol Framework. Congrats to Simon Woodman who did most of the work on this chapter and to the editors for putting the book together.
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"Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing US"
(I am back in Seattle, some notes about my trip to the UK will follow) The “Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing US” video is a nice high-level illustration of the evolution of the Web (some call it ‘Web 2.0’).
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Jim’s search is suspended but our hope continous
Please review the “Search status” blog entry over at the “Tenacious Search” blog. I am still full of hope and anxiously awaiting for Jim to reply to my last message upon his return, in which I requested to hear about his adventure over beers!
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Great paper on parallel computing
While on my way to London, I’ve been doing some reading. I found “The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkley” a great read.
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Commercial Quantum Computing?
DWave claims they have built the first quantum computer for commercial use. They are going after NP-complete problems, of course! I couldn’t find technical details on their web site but if this thing is fast and evaluates functional/dataflow graphs in parallel, I want one as my laptop 🙂
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Another good word for SSDL 🙂
In an interview to Stefan Tilkov, Arjen Poutsma, of Spring Web Services fame, had something nice to say about SSDL 🙂 Wouldn’t it be great if there were frameworks out there providing support for SSDL-like contract languages? I have been hard at evangelising SSDL within my company. Let’s see if anything comes out of it (btw… I have…
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Cream of Science
Interesting service: 46.713 publications by the top 229 Dutch academics. (via Tony Hey)
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On the road again
I am going to be traveling again from tomorrow. First, it’s Greece for few days to see my family and participate in my city’s carnival celebrations. Then I’ll be visiting the UK. I am going to be in Southampton and Microsoft Reading on the 21st, Manchester on the 22nd, and Newcastle on the 23rd (soooo…
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User-Defined Functions in Excel 2007 and Web Services
While preparing for an integration project with some of David Heckerman‘s biology-related work, I thought of educating myself on how Excel 2007, .NET, and Web Services could be combined to play together. A lot of scientists use Excel in their day-to-day activities. So it makes sense to make functionality exposed through Web Services available as custom…