Boundaries Between HPC And Cloud Computing Vanishing

By guest author Shaloo Shalini High-performance computing (HPC) just might be on the verge of a colossal shift in paradigm in terms of both technology and market aspects. The erstwhile islands of large-scale supercomputing facilities may soon become outdated thanks to inroads made by cloud computing into HPC territory in addressing the issues of scale,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What you delivered to the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association was a metadata structure of sorts? JP: Yes, exactly. SS: In terms of business model, we built ours on the reverse market adoption model. Once we realized that the legacy messed up this process and that making

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ira Weiss, Hyde Park Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you be more specific about the fees? Ira: What I mean is that some groups may charge a carry or a management fee. We don’t do that. Our underlying legal structure is a state nonprofit and whenever we make these investments. For example, we have

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Elizabeth Marchi, Frontier Angel Fund (Part 3)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: On average, from all the sources, how many pitches do you receive a month? Liz: I’ve been keeping a running tab this year just out of my own interest, and I’m talking to about 20 entrepreneurs a month. But when our fund meets, we usually have wind it down

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let me drill down a bit more into some of the things you said. What is the total number of parts that you mentioned are in the automobile aftermarket industry? SS: Three million are highly active ones out of 10 million parts.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 1)

In the following interview, Sramana and Steven discuss how supply chain services for Internet-based electronic data interchange (EDI) in the automotive and traditional whole goods markets are adopting cloud computing to their advantage.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ira Weiss, Hyde Park Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the twenty-ninth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Ira Weiss, who is the faculty director at University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth) and co-manager of Hyde Park Angels,  an angel network that is affiliated with the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Elizabeth Marchi, Frontier Angel Fund (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: So, not all of your fund investors are based in Montana? Liz: No, five are not. Some are here part of the year, and they really wanted to be  part of this, and that was part of the discussion when we formed the fund. For example, of the 33

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