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SQL Server Hosting Toolkit... Launched !
It would be interesting to see someone test out the SQL Server Hosting Toolkit for publishing their scientific data - imagine capturing it locally and then publishing it to a Science SQL hosting...
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Data Mining for the rest of us...
If you've ever been interested in using datamining tools - but don't have the time to figure out how it all works...take a look at these add-ins for the Excel2007. With the data in a spreadsheet - you...
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Sim Water at UC Berkeley using OLAP cubes
I really like to see this collaboration between the researchers at UC Berkeley and Catharine van Ingen from MSR's eScience group - they are using data mining and cubes to help with the scientific...
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Mundie: Science as a Web Service
I realized I forgot to post about Craig Mundie's article in the March/April Technology Review - Science as a Web ServiceXML can supercharge research. <...> XML is also one of the enabling...
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SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 CTP
So glad to see the CTP of Data Mining Add-ins available - I see this is as Data Mining for the rest of us...Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (Data Mining Add-ins) allow you...
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SQL Server Starter Data Schema
Very cool - it would be great to see some scientific reserach schemas added to the list...SQL Server 2005 Express Data Schemas Deploying SQL Server Express in real-world environmentsThis data schema...
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Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 (Excel & Visio)
I think of the Data Mining Addins for Excel 2007, as data mining tools for common man - they allow anyone to use SQL Server Analysis Services without having to know how to program the backend. It...
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Dynameomics - Protein folds by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Valerie Daggett and her team at UW have put up a site with their simulations of over 300 proteins for a combined simulation time of more than 35 microseconds. This site contains information for their...
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Virtual Labs - giving away a Camera
Just saw that the Virtual Labs folks are giving away a camera for using the labs...I'd recommend the Business Intelligence: Excel 2007 PivotTables and Analysis ServicesCreating a Distributed...
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Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback in Community Computing...
I meant to do an entry on this paper by Stuart Ozer (MSR) and David Kim & David Baker (Rosetta@Home) months ago...it's a great way to integrate SQL Reporting services w/ something like...
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Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
Thanks to Alex Szalay (JHU) for pointing me to GalaxyZoo - now you can help classify galaxies. This really neat...Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and...
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Data Mining Virtual Hands-on Lab Now Available!
I wrote about the Data mining Addins previously - Data Mining for the rest of us... and now you can test it out via the Virtual hands-ons lab...glad to see this post by JamieMac...Data Mining Virtual...
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SQL Server 2008 info
The latest version of TechNet Flash has some good pointers to details on SQL Server 2008 and the CTP available for download. Some of the things scientists might find interesting are:Language...
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[Papers] Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database...
In a discussion I had today around ways to advance a scientific problem I was reminded of Jim Gray and Gerd Heber's trilogy - Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend. The...
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Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet
Always looking for interesting papers that educate you on domains - really enjoyed this paper... Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round PlanetSQL Server Technical...
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SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP - Released
PHP developers can now integrate data from SQL Server now that the driver is available for download. Also glad to see that it works with SQL Server Express edition.It is my pleasure to announce that...
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OLAP and Scientific Data
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I thought it might be a good time to pull together some relevant papers and links. I believe OLAP is...
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Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
Graywulf is the natural evolution of Beowulf Clusters– it brings together HPC clusters and databases to do efficient processing and data management. It’s name and design also pays homage to Jim Gray–...
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Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench available for download
Project Trident CTP is now available for download. Project Trident is a scientific workflow workbench MSR External Research has been working on for the past few years, which allows scientists to...
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Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini”, I was blown away by the technology and innovation created by SQL and Excel teams and that held up when I was able to test it out on my own....
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