20030512: Unidata McIDAS-X/-XCD builds under LINUX and FreeBSD

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>From: Tom Yoksas <yoksas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords:  200305121146.h4CBkd7U008640 McIDAS-X Linux

Hi Marianne,

Since you asked me before about compilation speeds for McIDAS on various
platforms, I thought I would send along the following test results:

I built Unidata McIDAS (which is a superset of SSEC McIDAS and
also includes McIDAS-XCD) in /tmp on a dual Athlon 2400+ machine
running RedHat 7.3 here at Unidata.  For the timing test, I verified
that nothing was running on the machine (load average of 0.00); the
complete build took 00:07:43.  For comparison, the complete build on
one of our site's new Dell 2 x 2.4 GHz P4 box running RedHat 8.0 took
00:07:14.  So, our dual Athlon 2400+ box compares favorably with the
dual 2.4 GHz P4.

The same the Dual Athlon hardware running FreeBSD performed the same
build in 00:05:37!  FreeBSD wins the speed test hands down!!

Just thought you might be interested...

Tom