Server questions

[Bob]

Thanks for all the help.

What is generally considered the easiest way of accessing GrADS on a remote
linux server?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wesley Ebisuzaki" <Wesley.Ebisuzaki at NOAA.GOV>
To: <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Server questions


> > Bob wrote:
> >
> >> I`m still very new to GrADS and have barely touched the surface. I do
> >> however have big plans in the future, including producing some
> >> limited model products on my site.
> >>
> >> My biggest question at the moment is, what kind of server environment
> >> should I be looking for to even consider running GrADS on a remote
> >> server. Hardware specs are my concern. These may seem like dumb
> >> questions to many, but this is a first time for me!! I have visions
> >> of spending weeks, maybe even months learning how to use the
> >> scripting etc. Only to find GrADS will be bogging my site down, and
> >> crashing it!!
> >>
> >> Can someone shed some light on this subject. Hopefully you`ll see
> >> what I getting at!!
> >>
> >> What I want:
> >> Software that can run on my sites server, can import, ingest and
> >> contour model data into maps.
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >> Bob.
> >
>
> Bob,
>
>    I remember running GrADS on a 90 Mhz Pentium webserver with 32 MB
> memory.  Sure it took
> 45 seconds to make a plot-on-demand but people were more patient those
> days.    Anybody who would
> attempt to answer your question would need to know
>
>      (1) how many plots served / minute
>      (2) are the plots made on demand or how many plots will available
> for download (# made per hour)
>      (3) dataset size
>
>  Yours,
>  Wesley
>