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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That would be a huge help :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course, all this could be a foriegn language to
me at the moment!! I need to get down and read the GrADS manual first
:D</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob.</FONT></DIV>
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<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 7:50
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Server questions</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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.
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<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<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>--
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<A href="mailto:arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za">arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za</A>
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