Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

On Reproducibility

I just got back from a fascinating one-day workshop on “Data and Code Sharing in Computational Sciences” that was organized by Victoria Stodden of the Yale Internet Society Project. The workshop had a wide-ranging collection of contributors including representatives of … Continue reading

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Sad news about Warren DeLano

I just heard the sad news about Warren DeLano, one of the giants of open source scientific software (and the author of PyMOL). Warren passed away suddenly a few days ago. Like everyone else, I’m stunned and saddened by this … Continue reading

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Debellor

Debellor is an open source Java framework for scalable data mining and machine learning. You may implement your own algorithms in Debellor’s architecture and combine them with pre-existing ones to create complex data processing networks and experimental setups. The unique … Continue reading

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Science Laboratory Inventory

Science Laboratory Inventory Control Management System and Orders: Web-based system that is useful for managing chemical and equipment inventory management and handling science labs orders from teachers to technicians for their practical sessions. Find Science Laboratory Inventory at: http://sciencelabinv.sourceforge.net

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Webolab

A web-based platform for collaborative research and high-performance computing interface, a tool for implementation of virtual labs. Supports Condor cluster management engine. Find Webolab at: http://www.webolab.net

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OpenOpt

Universal cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac OS) Python-written numerical optimization toolbox. License: new BSD. Problems: NLP, LP, QP, SDP, SOCP, DFP(Non-linear Data Fit), NSP(nonsmooth), MILP, LSP, LLSP, MMP, GLP, MINLP etc. Connects to dozens of solvers (some are C- or Fortran-written). … Continue reading

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What, exactly, is Open Science?

I was recently asked to define what Open Science means. It would have been relatively easy to fall back on a litany of “Open Source, Open Data, Open Access, Open Notebook”, but these are just shorthand for four fundamental goals: … Continue reading

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Adevs

Adevs (A Discrete EVent System simulator) is a C++ library for constructing discrete event simulations based on the Parallel DEVS and Dynamic DEVS (dynDEVS) formalisms. Find Adevs at: http://www.ornl.gov/~1qn/adevs

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Saros: Distributed Pair Programming

I’m a big fan of pair programming, which is one of the primary modes of software development in my research group. Usually, two people sitting together can spot errors that one alone can’t, and the pace of the coding and … Continue reading

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Saros

Saros is a research project to enable distributed pair programming (also called remote pair programming) in the Java IDE Eclipse. Saros supports real-time collaboration by two and more peers and adds many features to increase awareness and presence regarding the … Continue reading

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