03-Apr-2006

Agile techniques in the management of business processes

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to the article, In business process management, finding the right tool suite is just the beginning by Derek Miers. “Just as BPM (business process management) technology is markedly different from conventional approaches to application support, the methodology of BPM development is markedly different from traditional software implementation techniques. With CPI (continuous process improvement) as the core discipline of BPM, the models that drive work through the company evolve constantly. Indeed, recent studies suggest that companies fine-tune their BPM-based applications at least once a quarter (and sometimes as often as eight times per year).”

Can there be art in computing?

Patxi Echarte in EsLoMas.com posts a link to the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, which houses the MareNostrum supercomputer. In the article, MareNostrum: A new concept in Linux supercomputing, its is described as, “The MareNostrum supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ranked number four in the world in speed in November 2004, is constructed of such totally off-the-shelf parts as IBM BladeCenter JS20 servers, 64-bit 970FX PowerPC processors, TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers, and Linux 2.6.” The Photos page gives an impression of the beauty of this fantastic machine.

Por cortesía del Barcelona Supercomputing Center - www.bsc.es. By courtesy of Barcelon Supercomputing Center.