07 June 2011
Community Driven: Sure, Unidata has Policy and Users committees, so they must care about what the community thinks, right? Right?!? I mean, I was there – I felt like they cared what the Users Committee thought while we were there, in town, in person.
[Read More]07 June 2011
Indexes vs. indexes. Gray's third requirement:
3. Intelligent indexes: for efficiently subsetting and filtering the data.
[Read More]04 June 2011
Gray's second desiderata gloria scientia:
[Read More]2. Schema language: powerful data definition tools allow one to specify the abstract data formats and to specify how the data is organized.
building NetCDF with parallel I/O and shared libraries
01 June 2011
Shared libraries can be devilishly tricky little blighters, especially for parallel I/O builds.
[Read More]Whats wrong with Fortran unformatted writes?
23 May 2011
Talking about the first of Gray's criteria for scalable Scientific Data Management Systems:
1. Data independence: the physical data organization can change without breaking existing applications
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