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Hiya, A new top-level source, designed as a replacement for thelma.ucar.edu, is now available: "motherlode.ucar.edu". thelma will still be available for a while, but external sites currently using thelma as a source of data should switch to using motherlode instead, at their convenience. The acquisition of motherlode was described in the Summer/Fall 1999 issue of the Unidata Newsletter. It is the result of a joint project between Unidata and NCAR's Scientific Computing Division (SCD) to provide an archive of IDD products, convenient access to critical data sets in SCD's Mass Storage System, a McIDAS ADDE server, a DODS server, and other new ways to access remote data. The motherlode machine is a Sun E450, with 4 450 Mhz processors, 4 GB of memory, redundant power supplies, and 500 GB of disk. It sits on the network directly connected to the vBNS by one router. It's currently running LDM version 5.1.2, a new version that will be available for general use in about a month. To check access permissions before switching from thelma to motherlode, invoke notifyme -vl - -h motherlode.ucar.edu and let us know of any problems. Thanks, Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================