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I have been quiet for a while so thought I just give a sit-rep regarding my numbers. I am in 91 houses; 283 rooms in total. The houses (and the number of rooms) in which I and my children currently stay are:1 CA-MCGILL-CLUMEQ-T21 CSTCDIE1 CYFRONET-LCG2 ...

Feed Item - 8 March 2012

One of our software architects, Steve Crouch, taught a few sessions at the Advanced School on Scientific Software Development in Trieste this March. We were very pleased to read the following blog post by Yalda Kolahdooz, from the Sharif University of ...

Feed Item - 18 March 2012

The Software Sustainability Institute is delighted to announce that we have partnered with Ubiquity Press to launch the Journal of Open Research Software , a metajournal for research software. This enables all authors of research software to cr ...

Feed Item - 23 March 2012

Following the recent discussion on hypertheading on the TB-Support mail list and having several sets of nodes that have hyperthreading and three or four gigabytes of memory per core we decided to run some tests to see if opening some job slots on the vi ...

Feed Item - 30 March 2012

The synchronisation of the DPM database with the data servers file systems has been a long standing issue.  Last week we had a crash that made more imperative to check all the files and I eventually wrote a bash script that makes use of the GridPP DPM ...

Feed Item - 14 January 2012

One of these four exchanges occurs regularly in everyday life… Tourist: “I think I'm lost, please could you tell me how to get to the National Portrait Gallery?” Policeman: “Read the f------ map!” Diner: “Excuse me, what are today's sp ...

Feed Item - 27 March 2012

Christopher Gutteridge from t he University of Southampton asked t he Software Sustainability Institute for a chat about his plans for "data.southampton.ac.uk enterprise edition". Chris and his colleagues have created data.southampton.ac. ...

Feed Item - 30 March 2012

Recently I attended the Software Sustainability Institute Collaboration Workshop (CW) which was held in a very sunny Oxford for 2 days.  It was a busy workshop for me due to being on the steering committee, being part of the events team, chairin ...

Feed Item - 4 April 2012

By Heather Packer, Agent and research fellow at the University of Southampton. Extending existing code bases can be problematic and time confusing due to a lack of documentation and comments, and a lack of clarity of the workflow between comp ...

Feed Item - 4 April 2012

In 2010 we had already decommissioned half of the original mythical 2000 (1800 for us) EM64T CPUs Dell cluster that allowed us to be the 4th of the top 10 countries in EGEE in 2007.   This year we are decommissioning the last 430 machines t ...

Feed Item - 31 March 2012