Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
At this time, I'm getting bids in for an upgrade of the bigbird/sasquatch pair into a cluster of servers running similar to the clustering at Unidata. I hopeto have bids in later this week, and to issue a purchase order within two weeks.
When the new hardware is in, installed, and working, bigbird and sasquatch will serve as back-end collectors. All requests for data will be referred to idd.tamu.edu for service, as this will be the front-end of the cluster.
I'll post more on the change-over as its time approaches.I do not expect the outage to last more than 4 hours. For that matter, I don't expect it to last more than 15 minutes, but my luck hasn't been stellar of late, so there's a fudge factor plugged in there.
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