20010329: Participation for Portland State University

Linda,

Everything we have is free. 

It is possible to request a subset of data from an upstream feed site
via the LDM. The amount of disk storage space you require is
dependent on how much data you require.

When determining the types of resources you will require, it really
depends on how much other work the machine doing the LDM ingest is
doing. If you are just using a Linux PC to receive the data via LDM,
you probably can start in the relm of a 300MHZ Pentium machine
with 256MB of RAM. From there, depending on how many data decoders 
you have running on the machine, as well as other hosts you intend to
serve within a lab or university, faster machines with more memory
will really benefit your server.

We have a 2 CPU Pentium 550MHZ with 1GB or RAM running Solaris ingesting 
our full suite of data and running all the GEMPAK and McIDAS decoders
for testing our packages. We generally run our packages on other desktop
machines that mount the data directories off the data server. We have
user directories, mail, web servers etc on different machines from the
LDM host. 

You can download the LDM software from our web pages (or anonymous FTP server).
The web pages detail the process for installing the LDM and for requesting
a connection to the IDD topology (to be assigned an upsteam feed host
in your area).

The analysis and display packages (GEMPAK and McIDAS) are downloaded from
password protected accounts. The passwords are provided upon request 
once we have your license information.


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: Linda George <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200103292109.f2TL93L27211

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>
>Steve,
>
>We are interested in the NOAAport data and GOES satellite data/images for
>airshed modelling research and education purposes.  I also work with 38
>middle schools and high schools in the area on air quality/weather
>projects (supported by an NSF grant).  I think some your products would be
>fun for them.
>
>I gather from your on-line info that the above two products would generate
>nearly 1G per day of data.  Is is possible with the LDM software to choose
>which parts of these products to receive or is it an all or nothing
>transmission?  I see your LDM is supported by Linux.  What kind of
>processing speeds are reasonable for LDM?
>
>It seems like the products we are interested are free to us except for
>what it will cost to store the data.  Is this correct?  What other costs
>might there be?  I know the Dean will ask.
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Linda
>
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>> Linda,
>> There is no limitation to your university participating in Unidata.
>>
>> You didn't mention what aspects of data or software you are interested in,
>> so I can send you the initial information gathering form for our sites.
>>
>> You can already access most of the data and software we have available,
>> but certain packages and data have education and research access
>> restriction that follow on through the license agreement.
>>
>> Please let us know how we can help you participate.
>>
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>>
>>
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