* Posts by pasmith50

3 publicly visible posts • joined 12 May 2011

Spectra Logic's six-times-faster tape robot

pasmith50

Re: exciting news for the team at GCHQ

In genomics we have quite a rapidly growing data storage challenge. With the cost of generating the data falling the cost of storing it becomes more and more important. Tape definitely has a play there and if we can get the data back sooner then we can move more of it off disk.

BOFH: Santa, bloody Santa

pasmith50

Two times fourteen

Am I suffering déjà vu or are there two episode 14s? Is there some symbolism in this?

Give the Met Office £10m, says Transport Committee

pasmith50

Do the ECMWF do that?

I thought the medium range forcasts all came from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts?