Microsoft

Bill Gate’s keynote from Supercomputing makes for interesting watching, if you’ve got an hour and a half to run it in background: Streaming download.

The first part, about graphical environments for web services workflows is something that I believe, and have been working on, as well.

The most interesting piece, to me, was the question at the end on energy utilization. The question was something like “the last generation has had effectively free energy. That won’t be the case in the future. How are we going to deal with that?” His answer was that energy won’t be the limiting factor … and he waved his hands at “fusion” and “science.”

Also, it’s finally public knowledge now that my company is working with Microsoft on the compute clustering / bioinformatics side of things. Apparently the booth they gave us at Supercomputing was sweet.