Re: 20000614: comments on NOAAPORT reliability from University of Washington

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.
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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
> 

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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/
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