Computing

Computing focused blog posts

2021
2021-06-16 Under the hood of a Digital Twin ESM
2021-05-26 Digital Earths - The fourth phase of (ESM) modelling maturity?
2021-05-22 What is a digital twin?
2020
2020-11-13 The future of the ESGF
2018
2018-03-22 Requirements for a global data infrastructure in support of CMIP6
2017
2017-12-31 The Exascale Challenge to the UK - Part Tree - Capacity
2017-12-10 The Exascale Challenge to the UK - Part Two - Compute
2017-12-05 The Exascale Challenge to the UK - Part One
2017-11-15 Science and the Digital Revolution - Data, Standards, and Integration
2017-02-05 Why so much data? Part I - The rise of direct numerical simulation
2015
2015-05-10 playing with docker
2015-03-02 A citation and provenance system for climate modelling
2014
2014-08-04 Building your own JASMIN Virtual Machine
2014-08-01 simulation documents
2014-07-29 Updated version of the model documentation plots
2014-07-09 The vocabulary of documenting models
2013
2013-11-13 Accessing JASMIN from Android
2013-08-28 Storing and manipulating environmental big data with JASMIN
2013-08-23 Gavin's Proposal
2013-08-22 github repo for badc text file code
2013-08-13 confusion on dois
2013-08-09 On CMIP6 and DOIs
2011
2011-12-08 data scientists are anally retentive too!
2011-07-02 European Exascale Software Initiative
2011-04-28 hpc futures - part two
2011-02-09 Pushing Water Analogies too far
2011-01-07 Numerical Observation Time
2011-01-07 Citation, Digital Object Identifiers, Persistence, Correction and Metadata
2010
2010-11-15 Australian Adventures
2010-11-09 Can we put distributed query to bed please?
2010-10-21 Tales from the EA linux coal front
2010-10-21 Instances and Properties
2010-10-13 The choice is python
2010-10-12 Integrating data handling libraries
2010-09-30 cyberinfrastructure for data
2010-06-24 Janet Futures
2010-05-25 Provenance, processes and O&M
2010-03-16 Quotation of the day
2010-03-15 hollow world and svngate revisited
2009
2009-11-09 erase to transparency
2009-09-29 my hero
2009-08-26 The relationship between collecting metadata, and the optimum size of a child's plate of food
2009-07-16 Bryan's Fishy Example
2009-07-08 cf standard names growth
2009-07-08 UM Crack Cocaine
2009-06-17 Interoperability, Data Fusion and Mashups
2009-06-16 A controlled vocabulary for advection schemes
2009-06-09 the doi saga continued
2009-06-03 Catalogues, Shopping Carts and Portals
2009-06-02 Journals and Data Curation
2009-05-28 Resource Reality
2009-05-28 i had to laugh, part 2
2009-05-27 i had to laugh
2009-05-23 kubuntu frustration ... again
2009-04-23 WCS is dead, long live WFS
2009-04-23 sun_oracle
2009-04-16 Scientific Method
2009-03-08 the publication ecosystem
2009-03-04 ukrds
2009-03-03 irony
2009-02-19 Strongly Defend Weakly Held Positions
2009-02-03 obscurity
2009-02-03 NDG papers appear in Phil Trans
2009-01-30 bbc goes to rdf
2009-01-13 SD cards to the rescue
2009-01-08 curation and specification
2008
2008-11-14 exist memory and stability
2008-11-10 lack of service
2008-10-15 delicious on konqueror
2008-10-06 Virtual Conferencing
2008-08-19 Defining a Metamodel - Part One
2008-08-14 Balancing Harmonisation
2008-08-13 Formalising Information Model Development
2008-07-28 Model Intercomparison, Resolution, Ensembles
2008-06-18 anatomy of a mip - part2
2008-06-13 exposing mips in moles
2008-06-12 The anatomy of a mip
2008-06-04 moles basic concepts
2008-06-04 Having our granule cake and eating it too
2008-05-29 Identifiers, Persistence and Citation
2008-05-24 EA and Subversion, Resolved
2008-05-23 Introducing Metafor
2008-05-21 Metadata, Effort and Scope
2008-05-20 Cost Models
2008-05-16 Beginning to get a grip on ORE
2008-05-09 From ORE to DublinCore
2008-05-08 RDF software stacks.
2008-05-07 Big Java
2008-05-07 atom for moles
2008-04-25 Implementing my RDFa wiki code
2008-04-23 creating RDFa
2008-04-16 More on the windows subversion client under wine.
2008-04-10 On typed links.
2008-04-03 Notes on brief service descriptions and bindings
2008-04-01 Subversion under WINE
2008-04-01 more MOLES version two thinking
2008-03-20 early MOLES version two thinking
2008-03-19 The Scope of ISO19115
2008-03-19 Online Resources in ISO19115 and MOLES
2008-02-22 More quotations - Static Maps, Public Trusts, and Bad Processes
2008-02-17 authkit and pylons don't quite fit
2008-02-15 Finding is not enough
2008-02-01 Data Publication
2008-01-22 Whither service descriptions
2008-01-02 virtualenv
2008-01-02 the leonardo file system
2007
2007-12-19 discovery and google
2007-12-17 raw and refereed data
2007-09-18 On SQL and XML
2007-05-21 Citation and Claddier
2007-05-02 Interoperability is just over the horizon ... always
2006
2006-12-19 Access Control
2006-12-07 Service Orientated Architecture - Two Years On!
2006-12-07 Service Descriptions
2006-12-01 No Silver Bullet Exists
2006-11-30 A proposal for profiling ISO19139
2006-11-15 browser crap
2006-10-25 Citing data with ISO19139
2006-10-23 Persistence
2006-10-20 Citation, Hosting and Publication
2006-10-19 On substitution groups and ISO19139
2006-09-26 More on citation - part three, delving
2006-09-22 More on citation - part two, MST
2006-09-21 More on citation - part one, ashoe
2006-08-15 to extend or not to extend ...
2006-08-15 On Access Control
2006-08-11 Granule Concepts
2006-07-28 Affording Interfaces
2006-07-27 On Processing Affordance
2006-05-19 Service Binding
2006-04-28 More on Data Citation
2006-04-13 More Meteorological Time
2006-03-28 Some practicalities with ISO19139
2006-03-20 The Lockin results in the Exeter Communique
2006-03-07 Meteorological Time
2006-03-01 Some Trackback code
2006-02-24 web service wars
2006-02-24 Might trackback grow up?
2006-01-22 Merging Metadata Always Lowers Quality
2006-01-20 Bibliographic References, ISO19115 and NumSim
2006-01-13 New version of NumSim available
2006-01-05 Oxford Seminar in March
2006-01-03 Whither parameters in metadata
2005
2005-12-22 Data Citation
2005-11-14 On Moores Law
2005-11-10 Trajectory Support for campaigns
2005-08-21 Service Chaining
2005-08-11 Metadata, XML and Deja Vu
2005-07-28 Business Models and Curation
2005-06-30 Terms and Conditions
2005-05-24 Dual Core Opterons
2005-05-16 Grid Architecture
2005-05-11 Citation Decay Rate
2005-03-31 Function Creep and Institutional Repositories
2005-03-24 JISC Digital Rights Meeting
2005-03-23 P2PGIS
2005-03-23 Linus spoof letter to Bill Gates
2005-03-23 ICSU Recommendations
2005-03-22 Python Eggs
2005-03-20 SOA Design Principles
2005-03-10 When is a webservice a grid service?
2005-03-09 Your website really does need to be current
2005-03-09 Why blogging is good for you (and yes we need a policy)
2005-03-08 Meteorological RSS Feeds
2005-03-02 Content Management, Wikis, Blogging etc
2005-02-28 What is a Web Service
2005-02-28 Internet Explorer REALLY Sucks
2005-02-27 Matplotlib
2005-02-25 M2Crypto Woes
2005-02-14 DataDeluge
2005-02-13 Testing, Extreme Programming and Demos
2005-02-13 Sunday Morning Procrastination
2005-02-12 Upgraded to v166
2005-01-31 FreeAccess
2005-01-25 Atomic content in NCAS
2005-01-25 Internet Explorer Sucks
2005-01-21 generateDS
2005-01-18 Massachusetts Contributes to easier Document Curation
2005-01-13 Python Gui Kits
2005-01-08 Open Source Licenses
2005-01-07 Searching Techniques
2005-01-04 On Binary XML
2004
2004-12-22 Verifyable Statements
2004-12-20 Service Orientated Architecture
2004-12-20 Elements and Attributes
2004-12-17 Nice review of RSS and scientific publishing
2004-12-16 xml databases
2004-12-16 Why Python?
2004-12-10 More on Trackbacks
2004-12-07 Citation
2004-12-06 Trackback
2004-12-06 forecast xml
2004-12-04 Python and Java
2004-12-01 Digital Signatures and Digital Preservation
2004-11-30 b-schema
2004-11-26 xmlsec
2004-11-24 Is Access Grid worth it?
2004-11-22 Knowledge Management Horizon