http://www.michaelsball.com/wordpress/2005/12/guess-ill-just-do-it Notes from the Empire Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:13:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.michaelsball.com/wordpress/2005/12/guess-ill-just-do-it#comment-453 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:17:57 +0000 http://www.michaelsball.com/wordpress/2005/12/guess-ill-just-do-it#comment-453 [...] The kind of computing he’s talking about is called High Performance Technical Computing (HPC), and although the hardware is getting steadily cheaper, is still very hard to write the programs. When I decided to join MicroSoft in 2006, it was because they told me that we could set up a group to make writing HPC programs much easier. Then MS decided that they weren’t going to do it, because there wasn’t a big enough market. I still think they blew it. Finally, I left. [...] […] The kind of computing he’s talking about is called High Performance Technical Computing (HPC), and although the hardware is getting steadily cheaper, is still very hard to write the programs. When I decided to join MicroSoft in 2006, it was because they told me that we could set up a group to make writing HPC programs much easier. Then MS decided that they weren’t going to do it, because there wasn’t a big enough market. I still think they blew it. Finally, I left. […]

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