Windows HPC Server 2008: Ejecución y Administración – Microsoft TechNet Webcast

Abstract Con Windows HPC Server 2008, tenemos a nuestra disposición el poder de una supercomputadora: podemos armar un "cluster" de máquinas para ejecutar trabajos en paralelo, de forma de poder aumentar el poder de cálculo con solo agregar más máquinas en el sistema. En esta sesión veremos distintas formas de enviar trabajo a un "cluster" de HPC [...]

Windows HPC Server 2008: Instalación y Despliegue (Deployment) – Microsoft TechNet Webcast

Abstract Con Windows HPC Server 2008, tenemos a nuestra disposición el poder de una supercomputadora: podemos armar un "cluster" de máquinas para ejecutar trabajos en paralelo, de forma de poder aumentar el poder de cálculo con solo agregar más máquinas en el sistema. En esta oportunidad mostraremos como construir un clúster utilizando Windows HPC Server 2008. A [...]

HPC WebCasts

Diciembre 2: HPC 2008: Introducción (10:00 HS Colombia - 13:00 HS BUENOS AIRES) Oradores:   ·        Angel “HPC” Lopez ·        Sebastian Renzi   Abstract: El termino HPC (High Performance Computing) se refiere a la necesidad de contar con gran potencia de computo para la resolución de problemas. Con el avance de la tecnología y el abaratamiento de los costos en hardware, hoy [...]

Windows HPC Server 2008 webcast material

Thanks to all who attended the webcast. I also want to thank @ajlopez and Southies for their support. Here you will find the presentation we used during the webcast. Feel free to email me any doubts or questions.   (Click the image to download the deck)   More HPC webcasts coming December 3: HPC 2008: Instalación y Despliegue - [...]

Windows HPC Server 2008 Webcast

Tomorrow, Angel "Java" Lopez and Sebastian Renzi will present an HPC 2008 live web cast. We will show an introduction to Windows HPC Server 2008 and show the benefits of this product. When: 2008/12/02 1.00 PM (GMT: -02:00. Buenos Aires) Attendees URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032390223&EventCategory=4&culture=es-AR&CountryCode=AR Abstract: [...]

Run commands in multiple puttys consoles

I needed to run a set of commands in different servers to join them to our AD. To perform this action, instead of execute it one by one, I found this useful tool (PuttyCS) to let me organize my Putty windows and execute the command one time in all of them. It is simple to use [...]

HTC using Twitter

I was really surprised when I saw HTC using Twitter for important product announcements like: “sad news, US. we looked into it- by the time we could bring Touch HD to the states, it would be old news. we do have other cool stuff coming” After researching a little bit I realized that HTC is not the [...]

Prism V2: The 6th drop is out (a.k.a. Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)

The 6th drop for this project is already out of the team room and into Codeplex, as it has been every 2 weeks since 2*(6-1)=10 weeks back from today. You can see the complete list of latest changes in Erwin’s post.   The biggest changes for this drop, although not very noticeable from the outside if you’re just [...]

Curiosity didn´t kill the cat

An interesting note was published in La Nación newspaper. It´s title was: “Las personas exitosas buscan aprender” (successful people search for learning). The executive interviewed was Mr. John Fallon, who is CEO at a company that provides educational services: Pearson Education . For Mr. Fallon, the most important thing for any professional, is to detect which tools, skills and knowledge each one [...]

ICommand for Silverlight 2.0 RTW Updated Sample

Some time ago, we blogged about how to implement the ICommand feature that is available in WPF but missing in Silverlight. The sample included in that post was using Silverlight 2 beta 2, so I updated the code now to target Silverlight 2 RTW. The main difference is that the old code included the ICommand interface which is [...]

High Performance Computing introduction

What is High Performance Computing? HPC is a branch of computer science that focuses on the processing of large amounts of information and the software that runs on it. To achieve this aim HPC uses supercomputers or clusters. Supercomputers: A supercomputer is a computer with a high processing capacity, famous supercomputers are Cray or IBM RoadRunner. Supercomputers have more performance [...]

Information Architecture Highlights (Ch. 1-3)

A few weeks ago I started reading “Information Arhictecture for the World Wide Web” (Morville & Rosenfeld, 2007). So far it has proven to be a really interesting book which delves into the basics and the not-so-basics of information architecture. This post is based on some reports I’ve been writing to share my knowledge gained [...]

How to decrypt a GenericXmlSecurityToken using Geneva Framework

  This took some time and you are lucky if you hit this after a search. This extension method allows you to decrypt a SAML 1.1 security token using Geneva Framework. public static ClaimsIdentityCollection ToClaimsIdentityCollection(this GenericXmlSecurityToken token, string thumbprintPrivateKey, string thumbprintIssuerPublicKey, TrustVersion trustVersion) { // Decrypt token var tokenString = new StringReader(token.TokenXml.OuterXml); [...]