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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:53:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Robb Kambic <address@hidden> To: Russ Rew <address@hidden> Subject: Re: IDD aggregate data volume On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Russ Rew wrote: > Hi Robb, > > In looking at Dave's recent presentations, he says the IDD delivers an > aggregate of 150 GBytes/day to all IDD sites. But when I look at your > charts, that seems to be a number created by summing up the data > volumes for sites that report statistics, which is a little less than > half of all sites (72 out of 151 for FOS, for example). > > >From this, can I conclude that the IDD is actually delivering > something more like 300 Gbytes/day aggregate? Or have you already > taken into account the reporting ratio in calculating the aggregate > daily data in your "feed product bytes" chart at Russ, At the time of the report for Dave's presentation, the total were ~ 140 Gbytes/day and we figured another 10% for sites not reporting stats. Lately, many UCAR sites are sending in stats which has pushed the total over 150 Gbytes. Also some of the UCAR sites are receiving ~140 Nexrad radars which is pushing the total up more. Most of the IDD sites are receiving NOAAport and McIDAS, ... that totals up to about a Gbyte per site. Using 150 sites, that equals 150 Gbytes. About 25 sites receive 1-3 radars, 20 Megabytes/radar equals 1-2 Gbytes more. Including NCEP, about 25 Gbytes for those sites. If you can folow my rational, the new total would be closer to 175-180 Gbytes per day. Hope this helps. It will be nice when I have some time to spend on the stats to make them more accurate. Robb... > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/status/idl/feedtotalbytes.gif > > --Russ > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================