[gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?

[Gerry Creager]

Interesting: I'd not heard AWIPS2 would be non-proprietary!  I'll have 
to learn more.

gerry

Mark.Keehn at noaa.gov wrote:
> I would wait and see what happens before making your final decision.  If
> national support for GEMPAK does go away, it would only be after it's
> capabilities have been integrated in to AWIPS2.  My understanding is
> that AWIPS2 will be non-proprietary so that the private and academic
> sectors will be able to use the software and contribute to the knowledge
> base.  If the National Centers are being brought on board, hopefully
> AWIPS2 will be better for viewing weather data on a global scale.   
> 
> Mark Keehn
> NWS Houston, TX
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> McIDAS would be the way we would move if something did happen to 
> GEMPAK.  It's ability to deal with model data is not anywhere nearly as 
> good, but the new MySQL database storage of GRIB data does make it 
> faster, and text products via the wxtlist, tafrpt, sclist, sfcrpt has 
> always been pretty good...and of course satellite is still it's strong 
> suit.  We are heavy users of it right now for certain things.
> 
> That being said if I ever get a new machine with 4GB of RAM ee will 
> install IDV on it since it runs on Solaris x86/x64 now.  I have already 
> played around with it quite a bit on my personal laptop.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gembud-bounces at unidata.ucar.edu on behalf of Gerry Creager
> Sent: Thu 1/10/2008 12:22 AM
> To: Rob Dale
> Cc: gembud at unidata.ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?
> 
> While I really don't want to see Gempak go away, I'm ranching out a bit.
>   I've been real impressed with IDV so far, although there are several
> holes in it.  I've also been pretty well impressed with NCL after
> spending this week with it almost exclusively.
> 
> I've also heard more (and in a way, less, about AWIPS2 as I worked on
> Storm Based Warnings over the last two years.
> 
> gerry
> 
> Rob Dale wrote:
>  > There's a nice presentation on it from late last year.
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/committees/usercom/2007OctMtg/TuellJune2007Partners.ppt
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > And one from NCEP presented in the fall:
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > 
> http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2007/MOS_11/presentations_files/Schotz.pdf
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > I don't see the words "going away" in there, I just think that 1) it's
>  > an unknown entity right now and 2) might be more complex than just
>  > downloading a new binary so 3) if you want to be sure you can read
>  > GEMPAK files in 10 years, you'll be safe with IDV.
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > -          Rob
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > *From:* gembud-bounces at unidata.ucar.edu
>  > [mailto:gembud-bounces at unidata.ucar.edu] *On Behalf Of *Robert Mullenax
>  > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:33 PM
>  > *To:* gembud at unidata.ucar.edu
>  > *Subject:* [gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?
>  >
>  > 
>  >
>  > I just happened to be reading on the Unidata site about IDV and GEMPAK
>  > grids when I was alarmed to come upon this statement:
>  >
>  >
>  > "The second pressing issue is the impending transition of NAWIPS/GEMPAK
>  > to AWIPS2 in the next 3-5 years. At this point, it is unknown how that
>  > will impact Unidata's GEMPAK users, but the committee thought that
>  > having IDV support GEMPAK data files would be a way for GEMPAK users to
>  > transition to the IDV if they wanted."
>  >
>  >
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