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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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
!!! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA href="mailto:arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA">Jean
Pierre Arabonis</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT
href="mailto:GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT">GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:11
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Server questions</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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><BR>Bob wrote:<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">--
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