News and Events

TPAC Digital Library on SourceForge!

You can now download your very own copy of the TPAC Digital Library Portal from SourceForge.net. Both the TPAC crawler and the Gridsphere portlet are available to download from subversion. The project homeage is now at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpac-dlp. If you have any question about the software, feel free to send us an email on the sourceforge mailing lists.

TPAC THREDDS Data Server

TPAC has installed a THREDDS Data Server (TDS) to serve our public datasets. TDS serves data through OPeNDAP, Web Coverage Service (WCS), HTTP as well as publishing GridFTP URLs. The server is located at http://ngportal.sf.utas.edu.au/thredds/. Please note that WCS only supports regularly gridded datasets. Please make use of this new service and let us know what you think.

APAC Summer School in Computational Science

APAC Summer School in Computational Science
4th - 8th December, 2006
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane

Applications are being sought for the APAC Summer School in Computational Sciences to be held at the Queensland University of Technology during the 4th-8th December 2006. The school is aimed primarily at postgraduate students and comprises one week of lectures and tutorials in computational science across the following five themes:

Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
Professor Kevin Burrage and Dr. Roger Sidje, ACMC, the University of Queensland

The CSIRO Mk3L Climate System Model

CSIRO MK3L Climate System Model: Annual-mean precipitation (mm) - 40 year average.

TPAC has completed porting the CSIRO Mk3L climate system model to the APAC grid facilities.

This low-resolution version of the CSIRO Mk3 climate system model is suitable for studying climate variability and change on multi-millennial timescales. The model is computationally efficient, and portable across a wide range of computer architectures.

Digital Library Portal

Portal Front Page: This is the main entry point to the portal. All data sets are grouped into categories and this page provides a brief description of each category and lists the number of data sets available.

TPAC's digital library portal is now in full production.

The portal was developed on APAC Grid facilities. It provides an integrated web-based user interface to a wide range of online oceanographic and climate datasets, and displays them in a common and easy way navigate format. It allows users to search meta-data and other characteristics of data sets.