CRAFT data hardware

[Kevin W. Thomas]

>> Thanks.  GEMPAK doesn't have decompress built in so we would have to at
>> least decompress and keep about 12 hours or so on disk uncompressed.
>>
>
>I think it'd be great if GEMPAK had the decompress built in.  Does IDV
>handle the compressed files?  The problem is the uncompressing does take up
>a huge amount of disk space, and is extremely CPU intensive,  so you're
>doing all this work on data, that you probably are only going to look at 1%
>of.
>
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>David Wojtowicz, Sr. Research Programmer, Sysadmin
>Dept of Atmospheric Sciences / Computer Services
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>davidw at uiuc.edu  (217) 333-8390

David...

GEMPAK and anything else that processes 88D data needs to have the
decompression built in.  It isn't difficult to do, and the code isn't that
long.

	Kevin W. Thomas
	Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
	University of Oklahoma
	Norman, Oklahoma
	Email:  kwthomas at ou.edu