Sindice posts

We’re talking about downtime again on the Sindice project but this time it’s not due to climate change or some other unforeseen event. Our datacentre cooling system is getting a major upgrade. Unfortunately, due to the scale of this upgrade (the existing cooling system which takes up a significant area of the datacentre needs to [...]

Since I started worked in DERI in January of this year, one of my jobs has been to improve the Sindice infrastructure to make it more robust and fault-tolerant. The Sindice infrastructure consists of a total of 15 servers (including two small hadoop clusters). We’ve taken various actions to improve availability including adopting a basic [...]

We’re happy to release today 2 distinct yet interplaying features in Sindice: The Sindice Inspector and the Sindice Cache API (both including Sindice’s Online Data Reasoning). A) Sindice Inspector – Takes anything with structured data on (RDF, RDFa, Microformats), and provides several handy ways: in a “Sigma” based view a novel card/frame based view a [...]

The Sindice Team at DERI.ie has now an opening for a senior software engineer to work on the Sindice.com infrastructure (and other related projects http://sig.ma and others of the Data Intensive Infrastructures research group). Working location is Galway, Ireland. We require strong java development skills, proven experience with enterprise development practices and frameworks, great flexibility, [...]

Today we release Sig.ma, Hurray \o/ ! Sig.ma is a pretty advanced application implemented on top of Sindice which gives a very visual and interactive access to the “Web of Data” as a whole.  Best thing to do, really, is watch the screencast. Bear the first 60 seconds where I introduce the Web of Data, [...]

In standard web search, we seldom need to obtain as results pages that were published just a few minutes ago. This is very different for semantic index that want to help you build applications that respond to “information out there”, possibly as quickly as possible. A way to make this happen is to efficiently process [...]

We’re getting today a new mighty UPS to support our refurbished-but-still-cool 40 machines/80TB map reduce cluster for large dataset processing. The cluster is based on hardware coming from a decommissioned ICHEC cluster  (thanks again guys). For purely numerical computations, as they were previously used, these machines are not considered cost effective anymore. For IO Bound [...]

.. time to upgrade the  “meet us at” information on the homepage. It has been stuck for some time. Rest assure however that for how static the homepage unfortunately seems, works inside are probably more active than ever and we’ll be posting about it this coming week. In the meanwhile you might be wondering were [...]

Dear all, apologies for the downtime this past 2 days. Basically 2 AC went down in the DERI data-center which caused excessive moisture which caused the UPS to blow smoke (a UPS way to say “go on without me”), which brought the data-center down. Systems are now restored and we’re back in operations. In an [...]

We’re happy to report that Sindice and the Sindice Team have been awarded recently in two separate occasions. Sindice was awarded 1st prize at the European Semantic Web Techology Conference , Business Idea Contest ( http://www.estc2008.com/index.php/contest ) unfortunately it is not reported on the homepage just yet, but you can find a nice account here. [...]