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[Gridcomputingplanet.com] NET as a tool for tapping the computing power of idle PCs on the Internet and turning them into a "poor man's supercomputer," reducing the time it takes to do calculations and simulations from months or years to mere hours or minutes, Microsoft said. Led by Luis Sarmenta, undergraduate students Stanley Tan, Sacha Chua, Paul Echevarria, Russell Santos and Joey Mendoza used .

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http://weblog.infoworld.com [Weblog.infoworld.com] Grid Meter | InfoWorld | What's Microsoft got up its sleeves for ...: The Bill Gates keynote at Supercomputing 2005 in Seattle was basically a "here we are" type of announcement. Gates primarily focused on his vision for compute Grids (to be expected, since it was at the Supercomputing event), but he also highlighted a vision for scientific workflow and was quick to point out that Microsoft was a driving force behind XML and Web Services standards.

http://hivearchive.com [Hivearchive.com] The Hive Archive » Blog Archive » The Coming Battle Over Grid ...: My comment wasn’t intended to disparage Digipede so much as point out the problem that Microsoft is going to have competing with companies like Google and Yahoo for the next generation of Internet Services. Some have estimated that Google’s data centers have well over 100,000 COTS PC’s setup in a distributed grid.

http://powersunfiltered.com [Powersunfiltered.com] Powers Unfiltered » Blog Archive » Grid Computing for Windows ...: 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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