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Hi Bob <br>
Just thought of the obvious .... you can reduce your space
requirements by using one of the dods servers, where you can access the
datasets remotely and not have to bring in the whole dataset to your
server. If you look at the gds part of the grads page you will find out
more about this.<br>
cheers<br>
JP<br>
<br>
Bob wrote:<br>
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<div> Thanks JP, that was a helpful answer :) I always forget that
the datasets will be large in size. I`ve only ever worked with tiny
datasets such as 211 grid domain, those were only around 2mb !!! </div>
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<div> It`s going to take me a while to get some kind of idea
about using GrADS, so for now I`l install it and just play around. </div>
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<div> Regards, </div>
<div> Bob. </div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA"
href="mailto:arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA">Jean Pierre Arabonis</a> </div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT"
href="mailto:GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT">GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:11 AM</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: Server questions</div>
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Hi Bob <br>
As i mentioned in an earlier e-mail, grads itself won't be
demanding on your server, however the datasets that you bring in can be
large and over time start becoming an issue for storage, small datasets
such as the wam output are around 37Megs and are produced every 6
hours, gfs is in the order of 250 Mb and ocean data sets can be of the
order of 500Mb, obviously if you want to do intensive processes on
these files your load will increase significantly for the duration of
the processing. I have found that giving people usage of grads via perl
scripts can lead to heavy usage and slow things down dramatically, I
would recommend that you create your charts via scripts and save as png
and let the users browse those.<br>
On a side note commercial packages that will do what you want such
as idl or matlab are generally expensive, more tricky to use and
speaking from usage of idl, less stable than grads, they do of course
have great functionality that quite frankly is often useless with
weather data. Another package that you may consider that is free is
GMT, I've played with it and it has some great functionality
(especially in the map projections) but again bit more tricky to use.
Vis5D is another package, seems to have stunning graphics in 3D but
I've never used it.<br>
<br>
Good Luck <br>
JP<br>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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!!
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Can someone shed some light on this subject. Hopefully
you`ll see what I getting at!! </div>
<div> </div>
<div>What I want: </div>
<div>Software that can run on my sites server, can import, ingest
and contour model data into maps. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Regards. </div>
<div>Bob. </div>
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<a href="mailto:arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za">arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za</a>
Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
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Jean Pierre Arabonis
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za">arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za</a>
Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
This email is 100% Microsoft Free
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