[Colloquium] Reminder: Thaler/MS Presentation/Sep 28, 2016

[Margaret Jaffey via Colloquium]

This is a reminder about Severin Thaler's MS Presentation tomorrow
morning.

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Date:  Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Time:  8:30 AM

Place:  Ryerson 277

M.S. Candidate:  Severin Thaler

M.S. Paper Title: Storing NetCDF in a relational database

Abstract:
Climate science requires the analysis of variables such as
temperature, precipitation, and ozone concentration, which depend on
multiple dimensions, mainly time, latitude, longitude, and
height/depth, and are commonly stored in the NetCDF file format.
Various infrastructure has evolved around this format such as
libraries, command line tools, visualization software, and web
services. In this work we present a prototype for serving NetCDF data
backed by the open-source RDBMS Postgres. We test various database
schemas in the search for one that delivers response times low enough
for visualization and further supports the diversity present among
NetCDF files.

Severin's advisor is Prof. Ian Foster

Login to the Computer Science Department website for details:
 https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/phd/ms_announcements#sthaler

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