The Next Generation of EMPRESS: A Metadata Management System For Accelerated Scientific Discovery at Exascale

Scientific data sets have grown rapidly in recent years, outpacing the growth in memory and network bandwidths. This I/O bottleneck has made it increasingly difficult for scientists to read and search outputted datasets in an attempt to find features of interest. In this paper, we will present the next generation of EMPRESS, a scalable metadata management service that offers the following solution: users can tag features of interest and search these tags without having to read in the associated datasets. EMPRESS provides, in essence, a digital scientific notebook where scientists can write down observations and highlight interesting results, and an efficient way to search these annotations. EMPRESS also provides storage-system independent physical metadata, providing a portable way for users to read both metadata and the associated data. EMPRESS offers scalability through two different deployment modes: local , which runs on the compute nodes and dedicated, which uses a set of dedicated, shared-nothing servers. EMPRESS also provides robust fault tolerance and transaction management, which is crucial to supporting workflows

Trust and communication development needs: An Australian waterfront study

This paper examines how the findings of a wider research effort, designed to examine the effect of change processes on the waterfront in Fremantle, Western Australia, gave rise to another research project. This second research project is described in full as an action research. The paper presents the objectives, content method and outcomes as well as the processes followed throughout the project. The Enterprise Communication Committee was not created for the action research program but it was able to define both trust and communication. A home produced mechanism for developing trust and communication was constructed together with a commitment to carry on action learning within the organisation. This is the waterfront - with no history of development and no exposure to theory.The group members identified a need, produced a set of working definitions. a methodology and an enthusiastic commitment to action

Human resources on the waterfront: Managing history

The paper reports on a three year study into change as it was occurring at the Conaust Ltd Terminal at the Port of Fremantle. The research began after the first Conaust Ltd Enterprise Based Agreement and continued through the period of negotiations and implementation of the second Enterprise Based Agreement. In depth interviews held with members of the workforce generated spontaneous constructs about life on the waterfront. The paper examines employee and management perceptions on the history of the Port of Fremantle life. These perceptions are supported by interviews with key stakeholders and relevant literature. The findings are reviewed in the context of the pre 1960?s workplace culture, the 1960?s - 1991 environment, and the post 1991 Enterprise Based Agreement workplace. In response to the debate surrounding the question ?has there been real change on the waterfront?? the findings support the claim that there has indeed been change on the waterfront. It is demonstrated that the change which was implemented in November 1991 with the first Enterprise Based Agreement has been true to the nature of change. It has been ongoing change which has acquired a flow on effect with one change precipitating another. The paper concludes with a discussion on the importance of history in establishing a platform for change.This research was made possible by funding assistance from Curtin Business Foundation, the Australian Research Council administered by DEET and the industry partner in this collaborative project, Conaust Ltd of the P&O Group. We acknowledge the significant contribution made by all those who have participated in the research

Preliminary findings on waterside workers' responses to the role of unions following the 1991 Enterprise Based Agreements

This paper explores pertinent details of the history of the stevedoring industry in Fremantle. The historical perspective sets the scene for examining the responses from both workers and management concerning the role of the unions following the 1991 Enterprise Based Agreement. These preliminary findings have been drawn from the qualitative data gathered in the course of semi structured interviews using general prompts to initiate discussion. A major category dealing with the role of the union emerged from the data. This paper examines the findings based on these responses.The findings indicate two concerns upon which most other categories of comments hinge. One is that the union is not seen by the workforce to be serving the needs of the members nor the industry. Resulting from this concern are calls to the union to look at itself and revise what it is there for now. Many of the comments reveal a perception held by the members that the union is primarily occupied with matters of self interest and lacking concern for the members. Workers have indicated that they want to have a central role negotiating important aspects of their working lives. The second concern is that these criticisms should not be interpreted as indicating that there is no need for the union. The findings strongly support the idea that the union as it is functioning now is not assisting the industry or the country in achieving international benchmarks of profitability. The categories of comments supporting this data reveal a clear call to the MUA to self-examine, evaluate, modify and then go forward. Clearly a mandate for change

Navigating Northumbria: mobility, allegory, and writing travel in Early Medieval Northumbria

The social fact of movement is a significant underlying feature of early medieval Northumbria, as it is for other regions and other periods. The eighth-century Anglo- Latin hagiographical tradition that centres on Bede (673-735) is not known for its articulacy concerning travel, and what is expressed might well be overlooked for its brevity. This thesis explores the relationship between allegories and symbolism, and the underlying travel-culture in prose histories and hagiographies produced in Northumbria in the early eighth century. It demonstrates the wide extent to which travel was meaningful. The range of connotations applied to movement and travel motifs demonstrate a multi-layered conceptualization of mobility, which is significant beyond the study of travel itself. In three sections, the thesis deals first with the mobility inherent in early medieval monasticism and the related concepts that influence scholarly expectations concerning this travel. The ideas of stabilitas and peregrinatio are explored in their textual contexts. Together they highlight that monastic authors were concerned with the impact of movement on discipline and order within monastic communities. However, early medieval monasticism also provided opportunities for travel and benefitted from that movement. Mobility itself could be praised as a labour for God. The second section deals with how travel was narrated. The narrative role of sea, land, and long-distance transport provide a range of stimuli for the inclusion and exclusion of travel details. Whilst figurative allegory plays its part in explaining both the presence and absence of sea travel, other, more mundane meanings are applied to land transport. Through narratives, those who were unable to travel great distances were given the opportunity to experience mobility and places outside of their homes. The third section builds on this idea of the experience of movement, teasing out areas where a textual embodiment of travel was significant, and those where the contrasting textual experience of travel is illustrative of narrative techniques and expectations. This section also looks at the hagiographical evidence for wider experiences of mobility, outside of the travel of the hagiographical subjects themselves. It demonstrates the transformation of the devotional landscape at Lindisfarne and its meaning for the social reality of movement. This wide-ranging exploration of the theme of mobility encourages the development of scholarship into movement, and into the connections between travel and other aspects of society

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