Microsoft High Performance Technical Computing and HPC Server 2008R2 [Videos]

Ryan Waite, provides overview of Microsoft Technical Computing and HPC Server 2008R2. The sheer size of generated data is a key driver in today's computational ecosphere. By the end of 2010, over 1.2 zetabyte of data will have been generated. Microsoft has been working closely with Intel to integrate their Parallel Studio product into Visual Studio 2010. R2 is Microsoft's third release of HPC product built on Windows, scalable to thousands of nodes.

Technical Writer At Google Accuses Twitter Engineer Of Sexual Assault

Noirin Shirley, a technical writer at Google, and also a vp (Conference Planning), Apache Software Foundation wrote a blog post entitled "A hell of a time," purportedly detailing her experiences at the ApacheCon in Atlanta. Shirley recounts a drunken post-conference party she organized in her hotel room and describes a rather disturbing interaction with Twitter engineer Florian Leibert!: