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by Posted onJanuary 26, 2014March 28, 2021Personal

Retirement planning – Simulation for the rest of us

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…

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by Posted onJanuary 11, 2014March 28, 2021Personal

The day we met Miss Moneypenny

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…

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by Posted onJanuary 11, 2014March 28, 2021IBM Stuff

Platform Resource Scheduler

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…

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by Posted onJanuary 2, 2014March 28, 2021IBM Stuff

Addressing OpenStack’s Goldilocks Dilemma

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.…

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by Posted onNovember 27, 2013March 28, 2021IBM Stuff

IBM Big Data at SuperComputing 2013

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…

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by Posted onOctober 30, 2013March 28, 2021IBM Stuff

Breakthrough Hadoop MapReduce Performance

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.…

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by Posted onSeptember 1, 2013March 28, 2021Neat geeky stuff

Raspberry Pi: A C64 contender

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…

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by Posted onAugust 10, 2013March 28, 2021IBM Stuff

Low-latency Hadoop for Risk Analytics

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…

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by Posted onJuly 12, 2013March 28, 2021Personal

Random pictures from the July 6th Party

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by Posted onJuly 12, 2013April 14, 2024Personal

July 6th Anniversary Party

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!…

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