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Monday, April 26, 2010 3:21 PM

External File Upload Optimizations for Windows Azure

[Cross posted from here: http://rob.gillenfamily.net/post/External-File-Upload-Optimizations-for-Windows-Azure.aspx ] I’m wrapping up a bit of the work we’ve been doing on data movement optimizations for cloud computing and the latest set of data yielded...
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Monday, December 21, 2009 1:50 PM

Time to do some digging…

I’ve been getting my test harness and reporting tools setup for some performance baselining that I’m doing relative to cloud computing providers and when I left the office on Friday I set off a test that was uploading a collection of binary files (NetCDF...
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Friday, December 18, 2009 3:57 PM

Windows Azure, Climate Data, and Microsoft Surface

I’ve been working on moving a large collection data to, from, and around Azure as we are testing the data profile for scientific computing and large-scale experiment post-processing and, in order to verify the data we uploaded and processed turned out...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:08 PM

“Live” Monitoring Of Your Worker Roles in Azure

[Cross-posted from here ] I’ve been working for a bit on some larger-scale jobs targeting the Windows Azure platform and early last week had assembled a collection of worker roles that were supposed to be processing my datasets for a number of days moving...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:59 PM

SilverLight and Paging with Azure Data

[Cross-posted from here ] If you’ve been watching by blog at all lately, you know that I’ve been playing with some larger data sets and Azure storage , specifically Azure table storage. Last week I found myself working with a SilverLight application to...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:27 PM

AtomPub, JSON, Azure and Large Datasets, Part 2

[Cross-posted from here ] Last Friday I posted some initial results from some simplistic testing I had done comparing pulling data from Azure via ATOM (the ADO.NET data services client) and JSON. I was surprised at the significant difference in payload...
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Friday, August 14, 2009 2:27 PM

AtomPub, JSON, Azure, and Large Datasets

UPDATE 8/20/2009, 15:29 EST: There is some confusing content in this post (i.e. Azure storage doesn’t support JSON). A follow up to this post with further explanation/detail is available here -- UPDATE 8/14/2009, 17:16 EST: @smarx pointed out that this...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 4:07 PM

Silverlight and Azure Table Data Paging

[Cross posted from here ] I’m playing around with a data visualization app using Silverlight and data hosted in Azure Tables and have been learning quite a bit in the process. Firstly, Azure tables only allows you to return 1000 records in a given query...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:33 PM

Azure, Visualization, and Large Datasets

[This is cross-posted from here ] I’ve been working on kicking the tires of Azure’s data functions and in the process was able to get my hands on a large set of climate data for testing purposes. I’m fighting with some size issues and azure, but thought...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:14 AM

Azure Blob Storage Blob IDs and “+”

[This is cross-posted from here ] I’ve been kicking the tires on Azure’s blob storage and am working on uploading a 1.2GB+ NetCDF file. I stumbled across a couple of samples online that were very helpful in avoiding the de facto client library that ships...
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