1. Dan Fay Technical Computing Microsoft
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Mystery and Suspense?
Dan Fay
Technical Computing
Microsoft

2. Dan Fay Technical Computing Microsoft
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Microsoft Using existing products and technologies for scientific research
Dan Fay
Technical Computing
Microsoft

3. Can “Here and Now” technologies reduce Time to Insight?
Can “Business” Tools and techniques for dealing with
Be used in scientific research to raise the bar and allow researchers to be scientists and not computer scientists.

4. The Problem for the e-Scientist
Experiments &
Instruments
Simulations
facts
answers
questions ?
Literature
Other Archives
Data ingest
Managing a petabyte
Common schema
How to organize it?
How to reorganize it?
How to coexist & cooperate with others?
Data Query and Visualization tools
Support/training
Performance
Execute queries in a minute
Batch (big) query scheduling

5. Data Mining & Algorithms
Real-world
Data
Interpretation
& Insight
Persistent
Distributed
Workflow,
Data Mining & Algorithms
Computational Modeling

6. Data Mining & Algorithms
Real-world
Data
Interpretation
& Insight
Persistent
Distributed
Workflow,
Data Mining & Algorithms
Computational Modeling

7. Persistent
Distributed
Storage
Visual Programming

8. Distributed Computation
Interoperability & Legacy Support via Web Services

9. Searching & Visualization
Live Documents
RSS updates for document
Reputation
& Influence

10. Windows Compute Cluster Server
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Faster Time to Insight
Better integration to existing Windows infrastructure
Integrated and familiar development environment
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11. Research Integrate Analyze Report
Data acquisition from source systems and integration
Data transformation and synthesis
Data enrichment, with business logic, hierarchical views
Data discovery via data mining
Data presentation and distribution
Data access for the masses

12. Comparison of soil moisture
From Gretchen Miller UCB
Excel 2003 running against cube on SQL 2005 Analysis Services
Individual plots didn’t take more than 15 mins each
The familiarity of the tool allowed the scientists to do this on their own…
Thanks to Gretchen Miller – UC Berkeley
& Catharine Van Ingen (MSR)

13. Other applications

14. Observations by ecosystem type

15. xl-caBIG Smart Client
How to give scientists a graphical interface for accessing cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) data-services.
PI - Katarzyna Macura Johns Hopkins caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace Subject Matter Expert

16. xl-caBIG Smart Client

17. Reproducible Research Document
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Reproducible Research Document
Broad Institute
Infusion Development

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SharePoint Products and Technologies Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards
Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists
Business
Intelligence
Collaboration
Platform
Services Workspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,
Topology, Site Model
Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control
Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, enterprise SSO
Business Forms
Portal
Content
Management
Search
Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow
Enterprise scalability,
contextual relevance, rich
people and business data search
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19. Excel Services Overview
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Excel Services Overview
Browser
High quality web rending
Zero-footprint
Interactive: Set parameters, sort, filter, explore
Limit to browser access
View and Interact
Excel 2007
Design and author
Open in Excel for rich exploration and analysis
Open snapshots
Excel 2007
Export/Snapshot into Excel
Spreadsheets stored in document libraries
Spreadsheet calculation and rendering
External data retrieval and caching
100% calculation fidelity
SharePoint platform and Excel services
Publish Spreadsheets
Custom applications
Set values, perform calculations, get updated values via web services
Retrieve full workbook file
Programmatic Access
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20. .NET & Visual Studio F#
Iron Python
SQL Sever
SQL Server analysis Services
Windows Workflow
SharePoint Server 2007
Knowledge Network
Instant Messenger
ConferenceXP
Academic Live, Onfolio, etc …
Development
Data
Workflow
Collaboration
Publications

21. Questions?
Can these tools/technologies provide value/insight to scientists?
What’s missing?
Ie. on HPC, analysis, etc?
How best to test/integrate these technologies?

22. Resources
Microsoft eScience Workshop at JHU Oct –
Windows HP
Data mining
Develop without Borders Challenge
Technical Computing Blogs &

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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation.
Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft,
and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation.
MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.