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06 September 2011
Many GRIB writers are not versioning their files in ways that allow generic readers to find the correct tables. Tales of mystery and mayhem.
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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.
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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