[gradsusr] Recommended hardware for GrADS

[Joe Moore]

Hello fellow users and GrADS developers!

I'm researching to purchase a new machine to run GrADS. I'm buying a new
machine because I don't keep my computers on 24x7 and I would like a more
reliable method of creating real-time plots than my cheap shared web
hosting. (By using my own machine I will also be able to use GrADS-DODS,
since my web hosting blocks port 9090.)

My plan is to purchase a "nettop" computer such as
this<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220072>or
this <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103297>; I'm
looking for a bottom-of-the-line, energy efficient machine to run 24/7. I
will be installing some variant of Linux on it.

My question is: As far as GrADS and speed goes, what would be the best
components to invest in? I'm no computer scientist, so I'm not sure if, for
instance, purchasing an SSD hard drive would increase the speed more than
extra RAM. (At the start, GrADS will be the only software running - maybe
multiple instances at the same time, though.) I also found this message from
Jennifer that stated that GrADS only runs on one processor; is this still
true?

Thanks,
Joe
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