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Re: Newbie question about VisAD and large datasets

Curtis wrote:

> Also, Bill has written a package called visad.cluster that allows for
> distributed data objects across a cluster of machines. Maybe Bill could
> comment on that in more detail if you're interested.

visad.cluster is only useful when the spatial extents of
a data set are large. Assuming that 64 * 64 * 24 describes
the spatial extents of your data, visad.cluster would not
be appropriate.

The key issue for large data sets is to get 64-bit Java
and Java3D implementations.

Cheers,
Bill


 
 
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