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Hi Chris, re: > We are setting up a dedicated virtual machine for awips2/ldm. Hmm... Depending on what the host OS is, running AWIPS2 from a virtual machine may be a bad idea. One of the members of the Unidata User's Committee is running CAVE from inside of a VMware VM running on his MAC laptop, and this seems to work well. Other attempts of running CAVE in a VM hosted on a Windows laptop have not worked well. Running the LDM in a VM seems to work nicely, at least from the reports that we have seen from users. To our knowledge, however, no site has attempted to ingest a LOT of data (e.g., full CONDUIT plus other feeds) inside of a VM, so we can not comment on if this should work well or not. re: > If you can give me some desired specs or point me to a place that > lists them, I can then work with my sysadmin to determine if we > can accommodate the hi-res data. I am not sure what specs to send you based on your comments of running AWIPS2 inside of a VM. Specs for a real machine running AWIPS2 EDEX (the data ingest, decoding and serving portion of AWIPS2) can be seen in: Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Software -> AWIPS II http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/#home System Requirements http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/#sysreqs You can see the volume of the various IDD datastreams in links in our IDD Operational Status -> Stats by Host pages. For instance: Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Data -> IDD Operational Status http://rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu/rtstats/ Statistics by Host http://rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/siteindex lead.unidata.ucar.edu is currently ingesting _everything_ available in all IDD feeds plus the HRRR data from NOAA/GSD, so it is a good place to look for the high water mark for data that is available: http://rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/siteindex?lead.unidata.ucar.edu Cumulative volume summary http://rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/rtstats_summary_volume?lead.unidata.ucar.edu Data Volume Summary for lead.unidata.ucar.edu Maximum hourly volume 54722.886 M bytes/hour Average hourly volume 30583.606 M bytes/hour Average products per hour 374104 prods/hour Feed Average Maximum Products (M byte/hour) (M byte/hour) number/hour CONDUIT 7776.854 [ 25.428%] 21555.577 89244.273 FSL2 7691.004 [ 25.147%] 11074.348 13441.932 NEXRAD2 6079.087 [ 19.877%] 8359.773 70727.886 NGRID 4690.050 [ 15.335%] 7663.183 33921.932 NEXRAD3 1982.612 [ 6.483%] 2540.238 98409.614 FNMOC 1194.264 [ 3.905%] 6456.847 3367.591 HDS 364.811 [ 1.193%] 669.656 19754.886 NOTHER 261.286 [ 0.854%] 752.347 1177.205 NIMAGE 161.913 [ 0.529%] 258.532 192.023 FNEXRAD 120.778 [ 0.395%] 154.971 105.386 GEM 85.337 [ 0.279%] 541.563 792.295 UNIWISC 69.168 [ 0.226%] 117.123 43.909 IDS|DDPLUS 60.294 [ 0.197%] 69.302 42279.295 EXP 39.781 [ 0.130%] 91.510 353.568 LIGHTNING 6.267 [ 0.020%] 17.565 291.545 GPS 0.101 [ 0.000%] 1.269 1.000 Please note that the FSL2 feed listed contains HRRR data being fed by NOAA/GSD. This is _not_ the HRRR data that is flowing in the NOAAPort SBN, that data is included in the NGRID feed. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PNI-592429 Department: Support CONDUIT Priority: Normal Status: Closed