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• John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies - New York Times
  “You need the willingness to fail all the time,” he said. “You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
  (tags: fortran backus innovation)
• Wall Street & Technology : Citigroup Moves to a Large-Scale Grid for High-Performance Computing
  "The emotional and political angles of trying to do this far outweigh the technical impact of trying to do it...Pitching 1,000 to 4,000 boxes together is not difficult...But trying to get a group of 25 applications to stop server hogging is demanding."
  (tags: grid shared_infrastructure citigroup)

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