Taming the Machine Infernal

we do implementations within the CUDA framework for many months now. In Nov-09 we installed a nvidia Tesla personal supercomputer in a server-rack with 2 Quadcore processors, 24 GB memory, triple channel architecture, with 2 Tesla C1060 and 1 GTX260 GPUs. A machine that let you "feel" the heat. A-wild-thing-that-makes-my-heart-sing.

Shhh...Testing In Progress

Sometimes, I cannot believe it myself. The next releases of our PRICING ENGINE and FACTORY are in the testing phase.

Imitation or Innovation?

Do creative copiers overshadow pioneers and innovators? Product life cycles need to become shorter and you cannot make groundbreaking innovations to gain a strategic edge just on demand.

Build An Enterprise Without Borders?

Recently when we intensified our partnership with China-Quants, I was rethinking our business models and strategies. 

Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies?

A report in Harvard Business Review, Apr-10, relating to a provocative blog post by Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School.

Manage through fear and intimidation, love, role modeling, ... or if you can't measure something, it might be the very most aspect of the problem?

UnRisk and China-Quants. 8 Good Reasons for a Spirited Partnership.

Shawn Liu (picture) head of China-Quants , Shanghai, UnRisk partner, and us met in our development center to formulate the strategic blueprint for marketing UnRisk technologies in China. In a 3 days workshop we thought like one company.

Custom-Fabricated Risk Analytics Factories?

Article in Wired Magazine Feb 2010 . In an age of open source, custom-fabricated and do-it-yourself product design all yo need - is a brilliant idea. Portals to the future of manufacturing are shown in examples like the power of micro-factories for developing a car - LocalMotors, Warham-Masschusetts, combining the power of crowdsourced design and professional experience to develop a power Rally Car. The manufacturing muscle came from a car company.

A Risky Skyline of a Portfolio?

I like modern architecture and look frequently into Hayes Davidson . They run now a project that explores visual perception: How would you design London's Skyline?

Bullet Trains and Intermodal Express Traveling

In Bullet Trains are Coming I have compared our fast solvers, combining advanced mathematical schemes and high-performance-computing technology, with the speed-trains.

Fast or super fast?

Bullet Trains are Coming

I read in Wired Feb-10 . After decades of false starts, planners are finally beginning to make headway on what could become the largest, most complicated infrastructure project ever attempted in the US. Technically, Speed-Trains are high-voltage rockets. Fast Train History leads to TGV with a speed record of 357 MPH.