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Harry, I don't know if we are ready for prime time with the new "thelma", but let's give it a try. The new machine is motherlode.ucar.edu Do a notifyme, if that seems ok. Then go ahead and do your request. Keep us inform of the status, hopefully this will eliminate your latency/reliability problems. Robb... >From address@hidden Thu Jun 15 08:45:26 2000 >Subject: Re: 20000614: comments on NOAAPORT reliability from University of >To: address@hidden (Robb Kambic) >Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Okay - I just switched over. -- Dr. Harry Edmon E-MAIL: address@hidden (206) 543-0547 FAX: (206) 543-0308 Dept of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640 On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Unidata Support wrote: > >From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden> > >Organization: University of Washington > >Keywords: 200006150403.e5F43DT12349 IDD NOAAPORT latency thelma motherlode > > Harry, > > >From my perspective, in the last week the reliability of the NOAAPORT > >reception from UCAR has been lousy. > > We agree completely. > > >Current thelma is not responding, > >and iita is an hour behind. It appears that doing a delqueue and > >mkqueue on grayskies is helping iita. > > > >Is there any hope in speeding up the improvements to the hardware and > >software? > > Yes. We are poised to switch IDD relay activities from thelma to a > new, robustly configured (quad processor, 4 GB RAM, 0.5 TB disk, > gigabit ethernet, direct Mass Store access) machine that has just been > installed in the NCAR Mesa Lab machine room. In addition, improvements > in the LDM queue management will be implemented on the new relay in the > near future (unfortunately, next week will be consumed by the Unidata > User's Workshop). Lastly, we will be more closely monitoring thelma's > performance until the new machine can assume the relay activities. > > We feel confident that these efforts will bring about the improvements > that we all know need to be made. > > >-- > >Dr. Harry Edmon E-MAIL: address@hidden > >(206) 543-0547 FAX: (206) 543-0308 > >Dept of Atmospheric Sciences > >University of Washington, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640 > > Tom Yoksas > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================