Project Trident from Microsoft Research
A scientific workflow workbench, allowing researchers in any discipline to build their own custom computer experiments without relying on computer scientists.
This uses companion technologies like, Dryad and DryadLINQ, adding capabilities to multiprocessor systems and large computer "clusters", to enable those experiments handling extremely large computations, like those required by Neptune.
A workflow in science is the process of turning raw data from sensors and other sources into information that researchers can use.
Project Trident begins with the Windows Workflow Foundation,. From there, the team has built all of the tools and services that are unique to scientific workflow. As it uses widely available Microsoft Technologies, Project Trident enables scientists to plug into many different systems and reuse piece of experiements in new ways.
Project Trident also provides for what's known as "provenance" - the ability to re-create an experiment to validate teh result - along with a registered repository of workflows that lets scientists know who wrote the workflow, how long it's been around and where its code came from.
Architecture:
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Project Trident
Monday, 13 July 2009
Office 2010 Test Preview revealed
Microsoft Office 2010 Test Preview revealed at Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference.
Various office 2010 productivity suite components - Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, Project, Publisher and visio, all hit the 2010 technical preview milestone, along with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Office 2010 will be accessible by PC, phone and browser.
The new enabling factor is something called "Office Web Applications" which are light-weight versions of Excel, Powerpoint and Word that can in a web browser. Supported browsers currently include Firefox, IE and Safari, giving a good competetion to Google & Zoho.
Microsoft will offer its Office web applications to consumer users for free. Users just have to sign up a Windows Live account. Businesses won't have free access.
Office 2010 also incorporates the "ribbon" menu system, first introduced in Office 2007.
Document collaboration is another feature in Office 2010. Like, Users can edit video in PowerPoint 2010 and then share/broadcast those videos.
Microsoft Office Backstage view lets users quickly access features associated with Office 2010 files, enabling integration with other Office or SharePoint apps.
To test these new productivity suite, Microsoft offers a web form to sign up for waiting list.
Office 2010 Waiting list
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Micheal Jackson in Silverlight...
