New research published in Communications Earth & Environment shows that the balance between volcanic outgassing and carbon sequestration into oceanic lithosphere is the key driver …
Why I've moved from Dask to Ray for distributed raster processing, and why Zarr is the natural storage format to pair with it.
GPlately version 2.0 has been released on GitHub — a major milestone for our open-source Python library for plate tectonic reconstructions. Here's a quick tour of what it can do.
The new Mac M1 processors are pretty cool, and are enough to convert this veteran Linux user to Mac. Since Mac M1, M2, etc. are all ARM-based there are some differences to be aware …
Dr Ben Mather and Prof Louis Moresi from AuScope’s Simulation, Analysis and Modelling (SAM) program have recently developed a novel, speedy and data-driven way to model the …
Chronicles the voyage on the RV Investigator to collect rock samples from ancient volcanoes on the sea floor
Geodynamicists from Sydney and Australian National universities have developed Stripy, a software module that allows scientists to efficiently place GIS ‘wrapping paper’ around the …
A bit of a late-comer to this game, I’ve just discovered the merits of so-called “continuous integration”. In a Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) review for stripy, one of the …
In an Underworld release far, far away… Geodynamicists struggle to model planetary dynamics due to the Cartesian Empire. Physical observations suffer inappropriate meshing and …
Most of the codes I develop run in parallel using MPI (Message Passing Interface) using the python wrapper, mpi4py. There is a reason why highly scalable programs use this …