See today’s longer post on resource-sharing for what I spent most of my day thinking about — the right way to balance use of our Myria clusters.
This morning, UW’s software working group met to discuss our goals, recent and future interviews & hiring, and to organize how we respond to calls for help at the info@escience.washington.edu mailing list.
In the afternoon, I met with a CS grad student from the UW Security Research Lab. He is using PostgreSQL databases to store and analyze an interesting dataset which I cannot post publicly about. We discussed database design, query authoring, using indexes properly, understanding EXPLAIN
ed query plans — in short, how to use databases well. Turns out that even smart, Linux-heavy grad students in computer science departments have trouble getting databases to go fast out of the box! More motivation for user-friendly services like we’re trying to put together in SQLShare and Myria…
I also put together a GitHub repository with the new UW eScience Institute logos and ordered some stickers! Drop by in 2 weeks and pick one up!
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