Bueno segun podemos leer http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-13FacultySummitPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press Releases aqui. Esta gente tan maja de microsoft estan aprovechando internet al maximos, claro, facilitando asi datos a grandes cantidades a los cientificos para buscar mejoras del mercado y como no anticiparse a las necesidades, claro que si.
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Addressing an audience of prominent academic researchers today at the 10th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft External Research Corporate Vice President Tony Hey announced that Microsoft Corp. has developed new software tools with the potential to transform the way much scientific research is done. Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench allows scientists to easily work with large volumes of data, and the specialized new programs Dryad and DryadLINQ facilitate the use of high-performance computing.
Created as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to advance the state of the art in science and help address world-scale challenges, the new tools are designed to make it easier for scientists to ingest and make sense of data, get answers to questions at a rate not previously possible, and ultimately accelerate the pace of achieving critical breakthrough discoveries. Scientists in data-intensive fields such as oceanography, astronomy, environmental science and medical research can now use these tools to manage, integrate and visualize volumes of information. The tools are available as no-cost downloads to academic researchers and scientists at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/tools."
Osea que todo esto porque son unos buenazos? Que bienaventurados estos de microsoft, haciendo semejantes cosas, ¿o quizas no?
"Project Trident was developed by Microsoft Research’s External Research Division specifically to support the scientific community. Project Trident is implemented on top of Microsoft’s Windows Workflow Foundation, using the existing functionality of a commercial workflow engine based on Microsoft SQL Server and Windows HPC Server cluster technologies. DryadLINQ is a combination of the Dryad infrastructure for running parallel systems, developed in the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley lab, and the Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) extensions to the C# programming language."
Asi que basicamente el proyecto podria llamarse : Proyecto caballo de troya - el cual consiste en incoporar la tecnologia Cluster HPC Server a la comunidad cientifica sin que nadie lo perciba, y porque harian semejante cosa? Seguramente porque actualmente tansolo funciona en el 1% de las top 500 paginas de supercomputacion, mientras GNU/Linux tiene mas del 88% .
Este enfoque por parte de Ms podria ser interpretado como: Toma esta galletita para perros, totalmente gratis, pero carga con el perro entero.
