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• Sun's grid: lights on, no customers

  No surprises here . From a commercial software perspective, DataSynapse and Platform seem to be doing well in the investment banking arena. Question for Microsoft; Will your up-and-coming Compute Cluster solution do any better than Sun's attempt? Anyone... Posted Oct 26 2005, 08:33 AM by mdavey with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Grid

• Another Week, Another Bank buy Grid Software

  It appears BNP has purchased Platform Computing Symphony product to take advantage of spare compute capacity from 2000 desktop PCs within in the equity and derivatives division. Given that I'm currently working for an investment bank on a grid project... Posted Oct 17 2005, 11:29 PM by mdavey with | with no comments Filed under: Grid

• Microsoft Grid

  There are a few articles on the web this week about Microsoft up and coming grid software ( here and here ). It's interesting to see that Microsoft appears to be going after the data grid sector rather than the classic compute grid . Lets hope Tony helps... Posted Oct 06 2005, 09:54 AM by mdavey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Grid, Microsoft

• Xgrid

  Why doesn't windows offer this out the box? Posted Sep 30 2005, 10:38 AM by mdavey with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Grid, Microsoft

• Grids and Trader Workstations

  Daniel recently asked me if I had any experience in using trader’s workstations for pricing jobs. Since pricing trades is usually a complete and CPU intensive exercise (due to the quantity/types of trades), its often the case that the calculations are... Posted Sep 19 2005, 08:51 AM by mdavey with | with no comments Filed under: Grid