Lexicographically sortable Canonically encoded as a 26 character string, as opposed to the 36 character UUID Uses Crockford's base32 for better efficiency and readability (5 bits per character) ...

Abstract: Scientific simulations on high-performance computing (HPC) systems can generate large amounts of floating-point data per run. To mitigate the data storage bottleneck and lower the data ...

In 1998, astronomers discovered dark energy. The finding, which transformed our conception of the cosmos, came with a little-known consequence: It threw a wrench into the already daunting task of ...