On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Christopher Blossom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blossom002@student.wcsu.edu">blossom002@student.wcsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To all:
<br><br> This is Christopher Blossom e-mailing you on Sunday, April
12, 2009 at 7:41pm. I am still lookinh at the documentation in
depth and I have another few questions. <font size="2">What does Gaussian mean? </font></blockquote><div><br>You are probably refering to "Gaussian Grids". This is a special grid that appears in conjunction with the so-called spectral methods. In a nutshell, it consists of a uniform longitudinal grid and a non-uniform latitudinal grid; the latitudinal gridpoints are determined based on the Gaussian quadrature formulas. For more information, start here:<br>
<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_quadrature">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_quadrature</a><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<font size="2"> What is a cray? </font></blockquote><div><br>Long ago, we used to have a grads version for the Cray supercomputer,<br><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray</a><br>
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font size="2"> What does endian mean?<br></font></blockquote><div><br>I'll refer you once again to the Wikipedia:<br>
<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianess">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianess</a><br><br></div></div>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>