A sanity check on our personal retirement savings plans People knowledgeable about statistics and simulation techniques will find my explanation here overly simplistic, but I…
This is a pretty cool story. The reason I’m telling it now is that it took me 40 years to put the pieces together. I…
I was pleased that we received lots of favorable press coverage related to our Platform Resource Scheduler (PRS) announcement. PRS is a more sophisticated scheduler…
Bringing Enterprise-grade resource management to OpenStack clouds OpenStack is quickly emerging as a de-facto standard for provisioning and managing public and private IaaS cloud infrastructures.…
At SuperComputing 2013 in Denver I had the opportunity to share a demonstration originally prepared for IBM’s Board of Directors back in September. HPCWire decided…
IBM recently introduced a new Adaptive MapReduce capability as a core feature of IBM InfoSphere ® BigInsights TM Enterprise Edition, IBM’s big data Hadoop offering.…
This weekend my son Jamie and I had fun setting up our new Raspberry Pi. I don’t know where I’ve been that past few years…
Most Platform Symphony customers today are running monte-carlo simulations in support of various market and credit risk applications. Some customers are deploying or considering the…
Thanks to everyone who attended Mom and Dad’s 50th anniversary party on July 6th in Tehkummah, Ontario. It was a great day with spectacular weather!…