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Mark Your Calendar
The Strange Loop Conference
Strange Loop , the Midwest's premier software conference, returns to St. Louis on September 18-20, 2011.
Strange Loop is a multi-technology conference, featuring tracks on programming languages, big data, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile, and web development.
Strange Loop started in 2009 with a sold-out show at the Tivoli in University City. In 2010 Strange Loop moved to the Pageant and Moonrise Hotel, selling out with 600 developers from across the world. Read more...
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Company News
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Hexagrid Wins Cloud Computing World Series Award for Best Virtualization Product
St. Louis, MO, June 21, 2011 - Hexagrid, a leading developer of cloud enablement solutions headquartered in St. Louis, announces that its flagship product, VxDatacenter, won the 2011 Cloud Computing World Series Award for Best Virtualization Product.
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Announcing the launch of Capital Innovators, St. Louis Tech Fund Accelerator Program
Starting June 1st, Capital Innovators began accepting applications for this fall's start-up Accelerator Program.
Are you an entrepreneur who has a great idea but hasn't gotten your idea off the ground? Capital Innovators is offering $50,000 in seed funding to five companies who will join our accelerator in downtown St. Louis. Our rigorous twelve-week program that includes free office-space, free legal and marketing services, subsidized housing in downtown St. Louis, free wi-fi and web hosting and access to the best and brightest that St. Louis has to offer through our mentorship bootcamp and university fellowship program.
The program concludes with the opportunity to demo your IT Company to major investors who can take your business to the next level. Applications are due July 15th, 2011 and the first class will begin September 12th, 2011.
Are you a member of the St. Louis business community and want to give back while working with exciting young companies? Let us know and we will pair you up with a start-up that needs your help!
This is an amazing opportunity for all members of the St. Louis community. It gives business leaders a chance to give back through our mentor program, allows students to see innovation at work through our university fellowship program and most importantly helps grow the St. Louis economy through the support and escalation of these exciting new companies. Please contact Mary Gleich, program associate if you would like to be involved in any way.
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ITEN Launches Business Model Validation Program
This is the second in a series of blogs about ITEN programs
Quite a few companies have applied to one or more of our advanced programs (Mock Angel, Technology and Architecture, E-Commerce and Web Business) but we often find they are not yet fully in command of the basic elements of their business model. Companies that are at the concept or prototype stage can benefit from some "tire-kicking" to test the soundness of their understanding of the basics of what is going to make their business viable: Read FULL ARTICLE
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Mentor Spotlight
Gary Stiehr
Gary Stiehr has been involved with the St. Louis entrepreneur community since 2004 and has been an ITEN Technology Mentor, specializing in scalable architectures and High Performance Computing, since the program started in 2008. High Performance Computing (HPC) is a tool that offers tremendous potential to St. Louis. Its ability to enable the rapid testing of new ideas is perfectly matched with the entrepreneurial spirit. Gary recently started STLhpc.net in an effort to strengthen St. Louis by spotlighting, connecting and building upon local HPC expertise and helping local organizations leverage HPC.
Gary has over eleven years of experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. He currently leads the Information Systems group at The Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, which includes the HPC systems used to analyze the genetic basis of cancer and other diseases. Prior to joining The Genome Institute, Gary worked at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) as part of the team building and supporting the U.S. Tier-1 regional computing center as part of the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid. Prior to Fermilab, Gary led the development and adoption of high performance computing resources by University research groups at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
STLhpc.net was founded in March 2011 and has quickly become the focal point for High Performance Computing (HPC) activity in St. Louis. Through their LinkedIn group, on Twitter & Facebook and at local events, STLhpc.net is connecting individuals and organizations in the St. Louis HPC ecosystem. Across various applications, HPC has increased innovation and product quality, decreased costs and time to market as well as enabled quicker discovery and insights. By leveraging High Performance Computing, St. Louis will increase its competitiveness. Visit STLhpc.net to join Gary and a growing community of over 200 others in St. Louis helping to leverage the full potential of HPC for the region.
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Company Spotlight
MulticoreWare Inc.
MulticoreWare Inc. is the leading provider of software tools and solutions for multicore and heterogeneous computing environments. The company specializes in providing the fastest and most efficient tools to adapt resource intensive applications that lend themselves to parallelization to multicore and heterogeneous processors. The company licenses the programmer productivity tools and algorithms for various application verticals to its customers, and provides professional services around the tools and algorithms.
MulticoreWare Inc. tools greatly increase developer productivity while eliminating the painful optimizations for different hardware platforms for the programming models such as OpenCL, CUDA, etc. For example, the System Dependency Analyzer tool identifies bottlenecks, application critical paths and system-wide dependencies. It goes beyond traditional tools in bottleneck analysis providing developers with great insights into the performance of their applications.
The company's list of customers includes companies in the Defense and Aerospace, Bio-informatics, Life Sciences, Imaging, Scientific Computing, Financial Services industries and Semiconductor companies who supply multicore CPU and many core GPUs such as AMD. MulticoreWare Inc. has helped these customers achieve performance increases of up to 1000x by moving their single-core applications such as BLAST to multi-core platforms.
MulticoreWare Inc., a member of the ITEN network, is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with engineering in St. Louis and Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. MulticoreWare has assembled a solid leadership team with industry and research veterans such as Dr.Wen-mei Hwu, Curtis Davis and A.G.K.Karunakaran. MulticoreWare is currently looking to hire entry level and senior engineers in St.Louis with solid C, C++ and parallel programming experience and interests in applications such as image and video processing. Interested candidates should contact ea@multicorewareinc.com. More detailed information on the products and services provided by the company is available at www.multicorewareinc.com
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