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20010107: McIDAS 7.7 ADDE setup at UGa (cont.)

>From: "Thomas L. Mote" <address@hidden>
>Organization: U. Georgia
>Keywords: 200012282251.eBSMpko24860 McIDAS-X 7.70 ADDE

Tom,

In preparing for the announcement of ADDE access to GINI and other
McIDAS datasets, I have been going around to the various machines and
setting up an information dataset that sites can use to define their
DATALOCations for a variety of types of data.  If you are game, I would
like to do the same on cacimbo.

The additions/modifications are simple.  They consist of editing one
file; creating one file; and FTPing twos file and unpacking them.  All
changes must be done by the user 'mcidas':

1) add a dataset information line to ~mcidas/workdata/RESOLV.SRV:

cd workdata
<edit RESOLV.SRV>
<add the following line to the end of the file>

N1=ADDEINFO,N2=DATASETS,TYPE=TEXT,RT=N,K=OBTX,Q=/home/mcidas/workdata/DATASETS,C=DATALOC
 commands for cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu Datasets,

*** please note that the above is a single line, so cutting and pasting might
not work correctly.  Also note that the trailing comma is mandatory ***

2) create the file DATASETS in ~mcidas/workdata with the following contents

----- <snip> -----

REM ? DATASETS - Define ADDE datasets served by this host
REM ?
REM ? File:    DATASETS
REM ?
REM ? Purpose: Define ADDE-served datasets for the workstation.
REM ?
REM ? Notes:   Each person wishing to access data from this server
REM ?          should down load this file by running:
REM ?
REM ?          READ ADDEINFO/DATASETS DEV=T DATASETS.BAT R
REM ?
REM ?          After the file has been successfully downloaded,
REM ?          the user should make the DATALOCations defined
REM ?          below active:
REM ?
REM ?          BATCH "DATASETS.BAT
REM ?
REM  History:  20001031 - Created for Unidata McIDAS-X 7.70 Training Workshop
REM            20010103 - Updated for GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP, and NEXRAD
REM                         datasets
REM ? ---------

REM
REM Locate the datasets RTGINI/GINIEAST/GINIWEST, NEXRAD, RTGRIDS, RTIMAGES,
REM RTPTSRC, RTWXTEXT, and TOPO on the Unidata RealTime ADDE data
REM server
REM

DATALOC ADD RTGINI    cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD GINICOMP  cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD GINIEAST  cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD GINIWEST  cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD NEXRAD    cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD RTGRIDS   cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD RTIMAGES  cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD RTPTSRC   cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD RTWXTEXT  cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu

REM
REM Locate the Learning Guide "Storm of the Century" dataset on the Unidata
REM server
REM

DATALOC ADD BLIZZARD  cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu

REM
REM Locate the dataset MYDATA locally
REM

DATALOC ADD MYDATA LOCAL-DATA

REM Done

----- <snip> -----

3) a) FTP the global topography file, AREA9000, to the ~mcidas/data directory
      (you may already have this file) and unpack it

   b) FTP the McIDAS Learning Guide dataset to the ~mcidas/tutorial directory
      and unpack it

cd ~mcidas/data
ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
   <user> xxxxx
   <pass> xxxxx
   cd data/topography
   binary
   get AREA9000.Z
   cd ../tutorial
   lcd tutorial
   get learn.data.tar.Z
   quit
uncompress AREA9000.Z
cd tutorial
zcat learn.data.tar.Z | tar xvf -
rm learn.data.tar.Z

Again, only do the above tasks if you are game.  If you are game but
would rather that I do them, please let me know.

Also, just for reference, the sites that I am going to announce data
access to are:

adde.ucar.edu       (UCAR, this is motherlode, one of the IDD main machines)
papagayo.unl.edu    (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
snow.plymouth.edu   (Plymouth State College in New Hampshire)
cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu (University of Georgia)

The McIDAS datasets that these machines will serve initially are:

adde.ucar.edu:       Sun Enterprise 450, Solaris SPARC 2.8

  - full complement -

  BLIZZARD  (McIDAS training dataset)
  CIMSS
  GINICOMP
  GINIEAST
  GINIWEST
  NEXRAD
  RTGINI
  RTGRIDS
  RTIMAGES
  RTPTSRC
  RTWXTEXT

papagayo.unl.edu:    Sun Enterprise 450, Solaris SPARC 2.8

  - partial -

  BLIZZARD  (McIDAS training dataset)
  CIMSS
  GINICOMP
  GINIEAST
  GINIWEST
  NEXRAD
  RTGINI
  RTIMAGES
  RTPTSRC
  RTWXTEXT

snow.plymouth.edu:   Dual 550 Mhz Pentium III, FreeBSD 3.5

  - partial -

  BLIZZARD  (McIDAS training dataset)
  GINICOMP
  GINIEAST
  GINIWEST
  NEXRAD
  RTGINI
  RTIMAGES  (partial; lacking topographic and east/west composites)

cacmibo.ggy.uga.edu: Dual ??? Mhz Pentium III, RedHat 7.0 Linux

  - partial -

  BLIZZARD  (McIDAS training dataset)
  GINICOMP
  GINIEAST
  GINIWEST
  NEXRAD
  RTGINI
  RTGRIDS
  RTIMAGES
  RTPTSRC
  RTWXTEXT

snow.plymouth.edu will be worked on in the coming week or two to begin
producing and offering all of the XCD generated data, CIMSS images, and
composites.

The next machine that will be added to this set of servers is an
Enterprise 450 that we will be installing at SSEC in the next month.
This machine will provide ADDE (and other) access to high resolution
GOES data in its original projection and _perhaps_ some MODIS data.  It
will also provide the full complement of McIDAS XCD-produced data and
most likely all of the NIDS data as well.

After that, Utah State University has expressed an interest in providing
these kind of services after they purchase, install, and configure a
3 or 4 channel NOAAPORT system.

Thanks in advance for considering the above modifications!

Tom