by Odysseas Pentakalos | May 22, 2016 | OpenEMPI
One question we get quite often about setting up an instance of OpenEMPI has to do with the configuration of the blocking algorithm. Everyone is familiar to some extent with matching since that is what an EMPI is supposed to do but what exactly is blocking? In this...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | May 5, 2016 | OpenEMPI
We are pleased to release the 3.2.0 version of the entity edition of OpenEMPI. This release of the entity edition includes many bug fixes and many new features including a reporting capability, enhancements to the probabilistic algorithm to improve matching...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | Oct 27, 2015 | OpenEMPI
We are pleased to release a new version of the entity edition of OpenEMPI. This release of the entity edition includes many bug fixes, stability enhancements, and performance improvements. Although a number of features have been added, the main focus of our work has...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | May 5, 2015 | OpenEMPI
To make it easier to try out OpenEMPI, we recently started making available virtual images that you can use to run the software without spending a lot of time with the installation process. We have options available to support various virtualization methods including...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | Apr 7, 2015 | OpenEMPI
We are pleased to release a new version of the EMPI edition of OpenEMPI. The 2.3.0 version includes many bug fixes, stability enhancements, and performance improvements. The Job Queueing mechanism has been integrated with most long running operations such as...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | Mar 3, 2015 | OpenEMPI
To help new users get started with OpenEMPI quickly, we now have a couple of Virtual Machine images that you can download. The images include an installation of OpenEMPI Entity Edition version 3.0.0 along with data already pre-loaded. If you are using VirtualBox or...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | Feb 15, 2015 | OpenEMPI
We are pleased to release the first version of the entity edition of OpenEMPI. This first production-ready release of the entity edition includes many bug fixes, stability enhancements, and performance improvements. The Job Queueing mechanism has been integrated with...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | Oct 3, 2014 | OpenEMPI
In the last blog post we looked at the easier way to load data into OpenEMPI that in exchange for simplicity trades-off flexibility. If you don’t want to take the trouble to transform your data into OpenEMPI’s fixed data format or if you are using the...
by Odysseas Pentakalos | Sep 20, 2014 | OpenEMPI
Once you get your OpenEMPI instance up and running the first thing you will want to do is load some data into it so that you can then take OpenEMPI for a test run. In this blog post I will describe the easiest way to get some data into OpenEMPI. OpenEMPI’s user...
