Category Archives: Industry
When software embraces failure
I recently heard someone talk about software as being operational. The context was large scale systems and how it is important not just to run hardware systems that operate at scale but also software that operates at scale. And having spent a lot of time lately in a world where operational excellence is [...]
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Some early Wolfram|Alpha driven thoughts
So Wolfram|Alpha is finally live. People have had mixed luck with it, as have I. Some items, especially related to mathematics and the physical sciences are really well represented. Others, not so much. When it works, it works brilliantly. Take a search for something like “ice”
Not only do you get [...]
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HPC and abstractions
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Dan Reed has a great essay up on the Blog@CACM site about High Performance Computing and abstractions.
He writes
I am confident that high-performance computing can and should learn a few tricks from the world of web services. We need a Ruby on Rails External Link for defining parallel application frameworks and an [...]
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Web as platform: Chemvendor grows up and becomes Chemcaster
Rich Apodaca is one of my favorite bloggers out there. His blog covers topics of interest at a number of levels, from cheminformatics to Ruby on Rails to we services. He also happens to be the found of Metamolecular which develops software and services that, in the words of the site, brings chemistry [...]
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Freerisk – An open platform for risk modeling