DM Bespoke Computer Solutions Ltd

Founded 25th February, 1997 by Dr Dale Mellor as a spin-out of work initiated at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne to develop a system to explore the interactions in space and time between rainfall fields and groundwater systems. The company has developed a range of interests since, primarily in the fields of science, commerce, and decision support/mission planning.

Live Data Processing

Since 1997 DM Bespoke Computer Solutions Ltd has been developing real-time data processing systems for Earth and Cosmos observation and studies. Previous assignments have included

• live satellite feed from Dundee Universityʼs Satellite Receiving Station to the Earth Observation Section of Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)ʼs Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH);
• image-download protocols and onward storage in satellite ground-stations for Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL);
• we are currently on assignment to the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at Manchester University to process the voluminous amount of data coming from the Dark Energy Survey (DES).

We have experience with high-powered computing (HPC) at national level, large local clusters (~800 nodes), and cloud-based dynamically-allocated, software-defined, infrastructure, as well as all the key web technologies needed to bring data interactively and procedurally to the end user.

FOSS

See the following pages for our contributions to the free software community.

• GNU mcron

  All the power of Guile to schedule unattended jobs on a computer.

• Micro HTTP Server C++ Library

  Give your C++ application an embedded web server so that it can interact with users through a web browser.

• Trader Desk

  Yet another stock price charting application; this one holds historical data locally and is extremely responsive allowing interactive exploration of the markets.

• Market Data Service

  Not actually open source, but a freely provided simple service which supports the above trader-desk application by providing market meta-data.

• C++ library for interfacing to the above Market Data Service

  Get live market meta-data into your C++ application.

• Kraken (cryptocurrency exchange) API C++ Client Library

  Get market data, live order books, and create trading orders on the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange using their REST API.

Contact

Please click here if you wish to send us a message (this is our primary correspondence channel); we would be happy to discuss the design and management of any complex software/infrastructure project with a scientific/numerical leaning.