Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Even if it’s just drinking. In my case that means single malt. Now, I never used to like whisky. This is no longer the case thanks to Nicky. She and I lived with for several years above a doctor’s surgery. And Tom, the aforementioned doctor, whose patients gave him bottles ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
Sometimes things just don’t work out the way you’d expect. I mean really, really not the way you expect. Today Microsoft announced Windows Azure HPC Scheduler and HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 that includes updates to the HPC Pack 2008 R2 and a new Windows Azure ...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
For those of you who haven’t figured it out yet I’ll be speaking at BUILD on Friday afternoon. (2pm session SAC-453T in room 210b). Analyzing “big data” with LINQ to HPC "Big data" refers to unstructured data sets so ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
The HPC team announced their Beta 2 of LINQ to HPC today. You can read more about this here… Announcing LINQ to HPC Beta 2 We’re pleased to announce the availability of LINQ to HPC Beta 2. LINQ to HPC ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Well, it finally happened… earlier this week the HPC team shipped their beta and it included Dryad.
We’re happy to announce that as part of the beta for Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP2 we’re shipping a beta of the project code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is Microsoft’s solution for “Big Data”. What’s ...
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