Tag: Dan Reed

  • Seeding The Clouds
    Seeding The Clouds

    I came to Microsoft to lead a new research initiative in cloud computing, one that complements our production data center infrastructure and our nascent Azure cloud software platform. You can read the press release and the web site for the official story. What follows is my personal perspective.

  • Stimulus Thoughts Redux
    Stimulus Thoughts Redux

    The CRA Computing Research Policy Blog summarizes the results of the conference committee reconciliation, including funding for basic research.

  • Three Views on Multicore
    Three Views on Multicore

    Andrew Chien, Dave Patterson and I have each written articles on the challenges and opportunities inherent in multicore hardware and software for the Community Computing Consortium (CCC) blog. My recent article, on the challenge of software, is now posted. In the article, I argued that we must re-envision parallel computing and a new generation of…