CSLUG June 2023

[James_McN]

Hi All,

I'm still working on confirm a date and venue for June but we will be aiming for a Tuesday in the second half of June typically.

I wanted to start this here so if you already had interest in presenting you can reach out. I'll update this thread with more details as I have them.

Cheers,

James

[James_McN]

Many thanks to Sarah and STFC we have a venue for June.

We will be meeting at Rutherford Appleton Labs on Wednesday 28th June in a conference room near the visitor centre (details to follow!)

I'll get some sign up pages up soon but in the meantime mark your diaries and let me know if you have something you would like to present.

[James_McN]

Registration links are up!

In Person: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cslug-june-2023-in-person-tickets-643660163877

Remote: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/91823fb3-4e85-4bd4-8578-c9207845c1a2@7366c578-54dd-4be0-bcd...

I'm still looking for speakers so let me know if you have something you want to share.

Cheers,
James

[andy_glass]

Hey James the link on eventbrite says its today.... may want to double checkit....  

[andy_glass]

Its only the remote version that is wrong.... 

[psmorris]

We're playing with using hdf5 as a data storage format for our new ultrasound measurement software... I could probably throw some bits together on where its good and bad so far, why we've chosen to give it a go and I'd be very interested to hear if anyone else has used it "in anger"...

Cheers

Paul

[swatts]

I've used HDF5 for an American job, they worked OK and were pretty sensible in their design.

[psmorris]

Did you use one of the toolkits for it on VIPM? If so, which? We're having a few "teething issues" using it so far!

[James_McN]

Yes would love that Paul. It's something that comes up from time to time but never got my hands dirty with it

[ShadesOfGray]

HDF5... So many lost opportunities. I used it around 2002 as a very fast file storage for the NI-Scope Soft Front Panel. Used LabVIEW calls to the C routines. Passing 64-bit numbers was fun, since LabVIEW did not support 64-bit integers to C calls at the time. I really liked it. If you search the forums, you can probably find my original code. I posted it as one way to crack the 2GB file size limit we had at the time (there were others, which I also posted on). This would have been posted under my DFGray alias. I have since used it for multiple other projects. Still like it. There is no other binary file format that comes close to its combination of speed and features.