Chipster

Chipster blog reports about topics both big and small arising from development of the Chipster data analysis platform. Topics include data visualisation, distributed architectures and workflow processing.

Releasing Chipster 2.0.1 —

Submitted by Aleksi Kallio — posted on 2012-04-17 15:05 — comments: 0

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Something completely different? —

Submitted by Aleksi Kallio — posted on 2011-09-08 15:27 — comments: 0

From time to time, you see Chipster popping up in quite surprising ways... Read more

Performance comparison of streamed encryption and compression —

Submitted by Aleksi Kallio — posted on 2011-01-21 18:00 — comments: 0

In the last post I discussed encrypting users' data files when they move around in a distributed system, such as Chipster. The big practical question was not answered: Will it be fast enough? To answer that I did some performance tests and give the results here. Read more

Encrypting and compressing your data on fly —

Submitted by Aleksi Kallio — posted on 2011-01-20 19:48 — comments: 0

When running a distributed system for data analysis, you have to take the big responsibility for your users' data. While doing development for our Chipster system, we started to think about the question: How to make that big responsibility smaller? Read more

Workflow engines for scientific computing —

Submitted by Aleksi Kallio — posted on 2010-06-10 15:59 — comments: 2

What is the difference between workflows and programming languages? Programming languages have proven succesfull. Why do we need workflow engines, because they seem to do basically the same thing? Read more