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I am pleased to announce a new release of the Gridfour free open-source software library. Gridfour provides a set of Java software tools intended to assist in the storage and production of raster data.
The new release, version 1.0.2, adds new utilities and fleshes out a number of API elements. But the feature that may be of most interest to Java developers is that it implements a multi-threaded approach for performing data compression and decompression operations. In our tests with large geophysical data sets, the new multi-threaded options shaved off about 40 percent of the runtime for writing and reading persistent data sets.
If you would like to find out more about the Gridfour project, please visit our wiki pages or our main repository on Github. The new multi-threaded implementations are described at our Multi-Threading wiki page and project Javadoc is available at the Core 1.0.2 API overview.
Finally, a word of thanks… Over the years, I’ve gotten a lot of help and useful advice from folks at the Code Ranch. And a fair bit of what I learned here found its way into my work on the Gridfour project. So thank you for all of that. I wish you well in all of your endeavors.
Gary
The new release, version 1.0.2, adds new utilities and fleshes out a number of API elements. But the feature that may be of most interest to Java developers is that it implements a multi-threaded approach for performing data compression and decompression operations. In our tests with large geophysical data sets, the new multi-threaded options shaved off about 40 percent of the runtime for writing and reading persistent data sets.
If you would like to find out more about the Gridfour project, please visit our wiki pages or our main repository on Github. The new multi-threaded implementations are described at our Multi-Threading wiki page and project Javadoc is available at the Core 1.0.2 API overview.
Finally, a word of thanks… Over the years, I’ve gotten a lot of help and useful advice from folks at the Code Ranch. And a fair bit of what I learned here found its way into my work on the Gridfour project. So thank you for all of that. I wish you well in all of your endeavors.
Gary
