video size and bitrates

Thu 24 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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A question that comes up in my research periodically is how much hardware is needed to store and transmit video data? Generally, I get away with the off- the-cuff estimate of 1 hour of video needing 1GB of space. Recently …

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keepalive script - solution to work around automounter problems

Wed 23 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

Sometimes the automounter does not properly mount the home directories on our hpcc system. This is not a problem when the job first starts because there is a epilogue script that runs before each …

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Custom Build Systems

Tue 15 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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I really get frustrated with Custom Build System (CBS), especially with software for scientific research. I define a CBS as a set of scripts/makefiles that are written by the software developers to install their software. In my experience, writing …

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Solution to BLCR Segmentation Bug

Tue 15 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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After a few months since our install of RHEL6 and my original post reporting the problem with BLCR:

We have found and tested a solution that works on our system. Here is a …

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Video Processing and Enthought Python

Tue 15 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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One of the reasons for choosing to work with the Enthought version of Python is that future users of software that we develop do not need to download and figure out how to install all of the different Python modules …

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Choosing Python

Mon 14 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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This summer I have some undergraduate students working with me to help jumpstart the image phenomics research projects. Much of what we are doing will be experimental, and we will work on separate projects that are closely integrated. Managing this …

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Scientific Imaging Research Group

Mon 14 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Historically, experimental observations in science have been limited to handwritten logs and field diaries. However, the recent influx of low cost digital cameras allows researchers who rely on visual observations to digitally record experiments. This has increased the amount of …

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Summer 2012 Research Blog Experiment

Thu 10 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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During the summer of 2012, I am going to conduct a personal experiment to evaluate the benefits of maintaining an online research blog. My goals for this summer blogging project include:

  • Getting back into the habit of writing down and …
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Faculty Seminars in Research and Instructional Technology

Tue 08 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Here are the slides for the Intro to HPCC, Intro to MATLAB and Advanced HPCC Classes.

2012-05-08 Introduction to HPCC.pdf
2012-05-08 Introduction to Matlab.pdf
2012-05-09 Advanced HPCC.pdf

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Files as semaphores

Sun 15 April 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

The following is a script that is designed to make it really easy to run a large number of embarrassingly parallel jobs on our scheduling system. The trick to getting this to work is …

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