Community Newsletter
Volume II, Number 3, June 2005

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Webcasting Planned for Training Workshop!
The workshop runs July 20-August 6, 2005 and
features sessions on IDV, LDM, GEMPAK,
and McIDAS.

Software Updates

LEAD. LEAD developers are preparing for an NSF site review scheduled for the middle of the coming month.

McIDAS: Look for the release of McIDAS v2005 in late July.

THREDDS: Developers expect to release a new version of the THREDDS Data Server later this month which will serve IDD data from motherlode.ucar.edu. It will have a built-in OPeNDAP server, and will provide THREDDS catalog services, as well as an experimental WCS server. It runs within a Tomcat web server, and is intended to be easy to install and configure.We are looking for a few IDD sites to test this server and provide redundant access to the IDD data. Please contact support@unidata.ucar.edu if you are interested.

Contact: support@unidata.ucar.edu for assistance with your software questions or to subscribe to an e-mail list to learn more about the software packages that you use or those you would like to learn more about.

It's new! It's improved! It's LDM 6.4

LDM developer Steve Emmerson has been busily preparing a new LDM-6 release, v6.4, that will be available in early to mid July. Some of the new features in v6.4 include the ability to run the LDM on a port other than 388, requests for data by MD5 checksum product signatures, allowing subsets of datastreams to downstream requesters, and the ability of data request processes to automatically shift between PRIMARY and SECONDARY modes. See the full story for more technical details of the exciting developments to the LDM-6.

Unidata's New IDD Cluster

System Administrator John Stokes has been leading our LDM/IDD support team in the development of a computing cluster to serve as the top level IDD relay node here at Unidata. This new approach allows us to perform routine hardware and software maintenance on cluster components with no relay downtime. It is also proving to be able to handle request loads that are limited only by our router capabilities and network bandwidth, both of which are considerable. See the full story.

News Briefs:

  • Webcasting Unidata's seminars with subsequent archiving has been favorably received by community members. One viewer wrote: "I just wanted to thank you all for making these kinds of seminars available via webcast, and for archiving them." Another said: "Very nice, it was great to see this presentation, thanks," and "really nice to be able to sit in on this." Watch the seminars page, for announcements about future seminars.
  • Unidata is lucky to have not just one, but two SOARS students at the Program Center this summer. Click here to read more about the work they'll be doing during the coming weeks.
  • A Call for Nominations to Unidata's two governing committees has been sent to the all-community e-mail list. If you missed that announcement there's still time to send your nominations to nominations@unidata.ucar.edu
  • To see a listing of current members and for some information on what the committees do click, here for the Policy Committee and here for information about the Users Committee. Members are appointed for three-year terms and should be able to attend semiannual meetings. Please indicate which committee you wish your nominee to be considered for. New members will be invited to attend the fall meetings.

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