Gridget > Grid Computing for Windows, part deux

http://powersunfiltered.com [Powers Unfiltered] And when it comes to tools that let developers productively adapt those applications to the grid, it’s clearly a Microsoft world.  Microsoft has been about developers and developer productivity longer than it’s been about anything else, and that’s the Next Big Thing in the grid world.  (Anyone interested in recent figures on how Microsoft is doing with developers can check out this eWeek article, aptly titled “Microsoft: .NET Beat Java;

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http://powersunfiltered.com  Powers Unfiltered: the IDEA is that you enter a search term, and Sharepoint returns a list of people who have some knowledge or capability in that area, sorted by your “social distance” from that person.  There was no discussion of how the information about the “people” got populated, so exactly how SharePoint would learn that I’m a grid computing CEO / entrepreneur / father-of-three / Atlanta Braves fan who likes beer was not explained.  (via Cosmos)

Cote’s Weblog Cote’s Weblog: In this episode, Charles and Coté talk about a recent prounouncement that .Net has beat out JEE, the annoyances of FileMaker, the crazy things our high school health teacher said, and things to do when the wife is away. (via Cosmos)

http://neosmart.net/blog  The NeoSmart Files: management by adding the power of XAML and its wonderful display functions (straight from WinFX) to the existing “tried and tested” .NET 2.0 code-base, but it’s by no means the end. (via Cosmos)

http://powersunfiltered.com  Powers Unfiltered: I adapted the title of this post from an article that appeared this week in PC Welt, entitled “Linux is optimal OS for grid computing, says Oracle.” (I found it through the diligent grid coverage provided by Greg Nawrocki in Grid Meter — (via Cosmos)

http://www.dzone.com  dzone.com - fresh links for developers: Consider Microsoft Expression Web Designer as Dreamweaver's new rival. Meryl Evans tells you why you shouldn't look at this competition in the iPod vs. (via Cosmos)

http://weblog.infoworld.com [Weblog.infoworld.com] Grid Meter | InfoWorld | "Grid Computing for Developers" hits the ...: Silva notes that the enterprise is still in the early exploration days in terms of Grid-enabling core business applications -- but "Grid Computing for Developers" does provide some specific technical drill-downs on Grid services running in more 'mainstream' commercial types of environments. For example, in the "Security" section (Chapter 8), Silva describes how a certificate authority works with a Web-based application "along with command-line tools and installation transcripts for two popular application servers: Apache Tomcat and IBM WebSphere."

[Gridblog.com] Upcoming Events: By: Ovais Khan The Grid Development Tools (GDT) feature is a bundle of Eclipse Plugins useful for Service and Application Development in the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment. Apart from using GDT in the Eclipse Workbench interactively we support using Eclips headless, i.e.

Computerworld.comhttp://www.computerworld.com [Computerworld.com] Computerworld Magazine: Download this Computerworld Executive Briefing (a $195 value) for free for a limited time. Download this Executive Briefing now!

http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily [InfoWorld Daily | InfoWorld] Step 5 of 12 to SOA: Podcasts: The serial 'road to SOA' has reached milestone 5, as in Dave Linthicum's fifth step toward service-oriented architecture. It's a short one this week: Understand all information sources and syncs available in your domain.

http://gordonwatts.wordpress.com [ Life as a Physicist] OSG Plenary Sessions: Day 1: David talked about the laundry list of problems his group has had getting nanoHUB working on OSG, and specifically, getting the BioMOCA simulation package to run. This package simulates the walk of an ion through a channel in a cell membrane.Their jobs have caused OSG a lot of problems because they are different than many of the HEP jobs that have run through.

mersenneforum.orghttp://www.mersenneforum.org [mersenneforum.org] Distributed Internet Cryptography: A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces -- New York Times Describes an open-source distributed cryptography scheme largely based on the ideas in Adi Shamir's 1979 paper, "How to Share a Secret", independently reported by G. R. Blakley that same year ("Safeguarding cryptographic keys", Proc. National Computer Conference, 48, pp 313-317,

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http://mmadan.wordpress.com [ Before I Forget”¦] NYT : Security Through Dispersion: Brilliant new technique emerging to address a surging demand to store data online cheaply.  Excerpts from the New York Times article entitled “A Move To Secure Data By Scattering The Pieces”

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