time duration formatting has been improved (using the humanize module)

I've fixed the _boxed formatting to strip ANSI codes when calculating string lengths (so you can use ANSI colours properly)

changed the colours for the "failed systems" warning so it's absolutely obvious

wrapped the JSON ensemble output in a write_ensemble() function which automatically gzips or bzips depending on the filename extension (or this can be explictly set in grid_options['compress_ensemble'] ).