Technical Notes

This is a page of links to notes about technical issues (e.g. guide to installing a piece of software).

• SimpleGuideToDeployingWebServices Guide to deploying a simple Web Service on a Tomcat server
• OracleSpatialEvaluation Oracle's new 10g database contains enhance features for dealing with spatial data. Could we use this to manage environmental data?
• InformixSpatialEvaluation IBM's Informix database with Spatial Datablade plugin is another alternative for managing environmental data.
• MyGridNotificationService JonBlower is playing with the MyGrid notification service to see if this will be useful for us.
• VitaNuovaInferno Experiments with the Inferno system for distributed computing
• KDevelopPage Information about KDevelop
• OGSAdAIEvaluation Notes about OGSA-DAI and how it could help us

• InstallingGridSAM Notes on installing GridSAM
• UsingGridSAMwithCondor Notes on submitting jobs to Condor pools with GridSAM
• EvaluationOfDPPEJ Evaluation of IBM's Distributed Parallel Programming Environment for Java (DPPEJ)
• UsingHadoop Evaluation of the Hadoop system for distributed computing, which includes am implementation of Google's MapReduce parallel programming framework.
• ClusterNotes Description of the HPC Cluster at ESSC
• ClusterUsers Area for sharing information among users of the ESSC cluster
• GRexUsers For users of G-Rex ("Grid Remote Execution") grid middleware
• FrontingTomcatWithApache
• ConvertingNetCDF3FilestoNetCDF4
• ReSC's cloud computing activities

Web Mapping stuff

• GodivaTwo Notes about the Godiva2 interface to marine data
• ServingGoogleMapsDataWithCDAT Notes about using CDAT to serve Google Maps and Google Earth data
• ImplementingGodiva2WithCDAT Notes about re-implementing the Godiva2 site using CDAT/Python
• SimpleWaysToShareEnvironmentalData Notes about using simple formats such as GeoRSS and KML to share environmental data.
• TileCacheAsJavaServlet Notes about converting TileCache to function as a Java servlet

-- JonBlower - 19 Feb 2004