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Pangeo @pangeo.io · 9d

Join us this Wednesday, October 1 at 12 EDT for the first Pangeo Community showcase of the fall! We're excited to have Jarrett Keifer joining us for a presentation and discussion on solving the problem of object storage. We hope to see you there!

Pangeo Showcase: "Let's solve the problem of object storage" (October 1, 2025 at 12 PM ET)

Please join us for the first showcase of the fall series, where we’ll be joined by Jarrett Keifer for a timely presentation and discussion, following his recent Cloud Native Geospatial blog post on Re...

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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · Jul 30

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording
@tomaugspurger.net from NVIDIA shares insights on GPU-accelerated cloud-native geospatial. See how to boost your data science workflows
▶️ youtu.be/BFFHXNBj7nA

[CNG 2025] GPU Accelerated Cloud-Native Geospatial – Tom Augspurger

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · Jun 18

My @cloudnativegeo.org talk, "Right-sizing STAC", is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd5E...

I explore of stac-geoparquet, searching it both through a server and directly from the client.

Part of the @stacspec.bsky.social Python+Rust ecosystem 🐍🤝🦀

❤️ to @developmentseed.org for the support

[CNG 2025] Right-Sizing STAC – Pete Gadomski

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum

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Brett Cannon @snarky.ca · May 14

There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way:

Eric Snow: www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowc...
Irit Katriel: www.linkedin.com/in/irit-katr...
Mark Shannon: www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shan...

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · May 9

New @developmentseed.org blog post from myself and @zacdezgeo.github.io: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-05...

Cloud-Native Geospatial isn't just for data, it's for metadata too

Right-sizing STAC — Development Seed

A new way to query geospatial metadata without the overhead.

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · May 5

Thanks, are there any algorithms in particular?

In github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p... big chunks of OpenCL were deemed not worth the maintenance effort. I’m hopeful there’s a smaller core that is worth it.

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · May 4

Freshly back from the Cloud Native Geo conference, tomaugspurger.net/posts/cng-fo... has a recap of my talk.

Reach out to me if you have geospatial workloads you want to GPU accelerate!

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Apr 9

The first Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference is happening in three weeks! I'll be giving the opening keynote, and I'm working to make it one of my best talks ever. The agenda (2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org#agenda) is incredible, but there's also going to be lots of space between the talks...

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Pangeo @pangeo.io · Apr 9

📣 Tomorrow's Pangeo showcase presentation will be at an earlier than usual time! Join us on April 9 at 12 PM ET to learn about scaling Dask Array up for terabyte-level performance! Hope to see y'all there 🚀 discourse.pangeo.io/t/pangeo-sho...

Pangeo Showcase: "Dask Array: Scaling Up for Terabyte-Level Performance" (April 9, 2025 at 12 PM ET)

‼ Please note that this is happening at 12 PM ET even though it’s typically a “late” meeting week Title: “Dask Array: Scaling Up for Terabyte-Level Performance” Invited Speaker: Hendrik Makait When...

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aimeeb @yayyyimee.bsky.social · Apr 4

I share @rabernat.bsky.social excitement about icechunk!!! On top of delivering 100x performance, it can make impossible tasks possible.

Why am I so excited to endorse #icechunk and #virtualizarr?

bsky.app/profile/eart...

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Apr 1

Congrats, and thanks for all your work on this!

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Mar 19

I'll be at the Cloud Native Geospatial Conference (2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org), talking about using GPUs for geospatial workloads.

Let me know if you have any experience or interest in this and would like to chat.

CNG Conference 2025

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Feb 28

I blogged about me blogging about High Performance Remote IO on the nvidia blog:

- direct link: developer.nvidia.com/blog/high-pe...
- extra commentary: tomaugspurger.net/posts/high-p...

High Performance Remote IO

I have a new post up at the NVIDIA technical blog on High-Performance Remote IO with NVIDIA KvikIO.1 This is mostly general-purpose advice on getting good performance out of cloud object stores (I gue...

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Feb 25

This pairs nicely with @2i2c.org’s Right to Replicate: 2i2c.org/right-to-rep...

The Community Right to Replicate | 2i2c

The Right to Replicate gives communities the right to replicate their infrastructure in its entirety elsewhere, with or without 2i2c. This document describes 2i2c’s commitment to a community’s “right ...

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Feb 19

Doing it from the DB is going to be fastest, but if the API does anything to the STAC items on the way out, you either lose that or have to replicate it. But I’m guessing the PC was an outlier there, with how much we added at the API layer

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Pangeo @pangeo.io · Feb 4

Join us tomorrow, February 5, at 12 PM EST for @gadom.ski's Pangeo showcase on high-performance Python STAC tooling, backed by Rust! 🎉🐍🦀 discourse.pangeo.io/t/pangeo-sho...

Pangeo Showcase: "High-performance Python STAC tooling, backed by Rust"

Yes, it will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube within a week.

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Feb 2

Congrats! At least for science, I think Iowa and Maryland are both based off www.nextgenscience.org

Home Page | Next Generation Science Standards

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Feb 2

Thanks! It feels a bit Sisyphean given everything else going on, but oh well.

You subscribe to the Economist right? I’m trying to figure out a way to stay on top of things without getting overwhelmed daily.

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Feb 1

Some thoughts on Iowa's proposed science standards: tomaugspurger.net/posts/iowa-a...

Iowa's Proposed State Science Standards

My local Department of Education has a public comment period for some proposed changes to Iowa’s science education standards. If you live in Iowa, I’d encourage you to read the proposal (PDF) and shar...

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · Jan 8

Spatial indexes, and RTrees specifically, are at the core of geospatial software.

But ever wondered how an RTree is actually implemented?

In this post we’ll dive into the implementation of Flatbush, an elegant, blazing-fast, memory-efficient RTree.

kylebarron.dev/literate-fla...

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Pangeo @pangeo.io · Dec 10

Pangeo is at AGU24! Find us at these events and more - discourse.pangeo.io/t/2024-agu-f...

2024 AGU Fall Meeting (Pangeo talks and events)

Hi everyone, This will be my first time attending AGU, and I’m really looking forward to it! 🎉 In past years, I’ve noticed that the Pangeo community often compiles a list of Pangeo-related talks and ...

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Nov 4

@gadom.ski www.gadom.ski/posts/rust-a... was a nice read. Any chance you could (re)add RSS to your site? If I'm reading www.getzola.org/documentatio... right, `generate_feeds = true` in your config should do the trick :)

Rust and geospatial

Rust can be useful for building geospatial systems, but it's not a silver bullet.

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