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PPoPP 2009 wrap-up

The 3-day Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) conference ended last week with a session on parallel compilers and tools, another on high end computing software, and a keynote by ACM fellow Jack Dennis. Although the last day was a short one, it was not light on content....

Tags: Compiler, Memory, Conference, Los Alamos National Lab Roadrunner Computer, Composability, Flash Memory, Processors, Productivity, Development Tools, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-23

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Adaptive infrastructure no longer vision

At the beginning of this decade HP put forth a vision for the future data center that they have now fulfilled with both products and services offerings. Viewed by some at the time as a reaction to IBM Applications on Demand, HP coined Adaptive Infrastructure as its vision for a...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Vision, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Strategy, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-01-21

The CCM and EJB Story

Every Component Software technologies like CCM, EJB and COM+ offer a model for dealing with components. This is called a Component Model. The first step of integrating CCM and EJB is in finding the commonalties between the two component models. Before that one needs to understand what a Component Model...

Tags: iCMG, EJB, J2Ee, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software

White papers 2009-01-01

Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?

Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?SOA may also be nonsense like Knowledge ManagementI have heard of SOA after it became extensively publicized. Many of the articles I read failed to bring out any distinct and valuable core concept of SOA. One expert (V...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Harvard Business Review, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Open Architecture for the Enterprise, Part 1: Architectural Principles of Open Architecture - Be Cheap, Flexible, and Interoperable in 7 Easy Steps

Enterprise Open Architecture OA is a pattern of nonfunctional requirements that can help one create and maintain more open and flexible complex systems, and systems of systems. Organizations with large, complex systems are looking to OA to help manage complexity, increase flexibility, and reduce their costs. Satisfying the OA nonfunctional...

Tags: Requirement

White papers 2007-12-12

MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing

At this week’s open house for press and analysts, Microsoft Research MSR will be showing off a multitude of projects, including a so far little-publicized distributed-computing platform under development that is code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is one of a number of large-scale-computing efforts in which Microsoft researchers are engaged....

Tags: Dryad team, Dryad, Dryad Web site

Blog posts 2006-09-26

The 80/20 rule of SOA service reusability

The main value of SOA is reuse. Build once, use often. So it can be assumed that any services you build and deploy should be reusable across the enterprise, or whatever other sphere you work in -- or else you're not getting your money's worth, right?Well, it depends, advises ZapThink's...

Tags: Bloomberg L.P., SOA

Blog posts 2006-06-08

The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture

The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented ArchitectureSOAP vs. REST; not just about the protocol.The choice whether to use REST or SOAP is not just about the protocol, it's also about development tools.REST is simpler than SOAP, but in many development environments creating or consuming SOAP web services is just a...

Tags: SOAP, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Even Microsoft, Simple Object Access Protocol, SOA

Discussion threads 2006-04-02

The power of simplicity at the edge

One of the demonstrations I like to give to show the power of simple services is to use Iridesco's Suprglu to instantly wire together Web services into a new and useful service on the spot. This is the simplest possible mashup you can create but it does combine useful...

Tags: SOAP, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Web, RSS, Web service, Simple Object Access Protocol, mashup

Blog posts 2006-02-14

The national sex offender registry

This week, the Dept. of Justice released the national sex offender public registry, a compilation of sex offender registries from various states. In general, I'm a big supporter of making these kinds of public records available and easily searchable. That's an important piece of eGovernment. ...

Tags: HTTP POST, sex offender

Blog posts 2005-08-05

The national sex offender registry

This week, the Dept. of Justice released the national sex offender public registry, a compilation of sex offender registries from various states. In general, I'm a big supporter of making these kinds of public records available and easily searchable. That's an important piece of eGovernment. ...

Tags: sex offender, HTTP POST

Blog posts 2005-08-04