20020213: 20020208: Canadian GEM model (fwd)

Anne-Marie,

Previously, the computer at your end which hosted the LDM was:
ftp.cmc.ec.gc.ca aka dns2.cmc.ec.gc.ca. Will that still be the host, 
or has it changed?

I checked our ability to reach ftp.cmc.ec.gc.ca from
shemp.unidata.ucar.edu which was the computer that used to feed
the data, and found that the host is no longer reachable from our end.

% ping dns2.cmc.ec.gc.ca
ICMP 13 Unreachable from gateway 199.212.17.97

% ldmping dns2.cmc.ec.gc.ca
Feb 13 17:53:13      State    Elapsed Port   Remote_Host           rpc_stat
Feb 13 17:53:23 SVC_UNAVAIL   9.995334    0   dns2.cmc.ec.gc.ca  
h_clnt_create(dns2.cmc.ec.gc.ca): Timed out while creating connection

If you can let me know what your host will be, I can test from this end.
If you are blocking port 388 from a firewall or tcp wrappers, then you may have 
to
open it up to:

128.117.140.27 shemp.unidata.ucar.edu
or
128.117.13.119 motherlode.ucar.edu

Thanks,

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: "Beaubien,Anne-Marie [CMC]" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200202131658.g1DGwBx21051

>Hello,
>       Version 5.1.2 of LDM is installed at CMC, up and running.  We are
>ready for testing. I will be the contact at this end for testing. Should you
>have problems reaching me, you may also contact Dov Bensimon
>(address@hidden (514)421-7256).  Hopefully we can get this running
>today.
>
>Regards,
> 
>Anne-Marie Beaubien
>Environment Canada
>Meteorological Service of Canada
>CMC Informatics Branch / Data Acquisition and Distribution Services 
>Tél:  (514) 421-4778           Fax: (514) 421-4703
>email:    address@hidden
>
>               
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hogue,Richard [CMC] 
>Sent: 2002/02/12 10:51 AM
>To: 'Linda Miller'
>Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden;
>Bensimon,Dov [CMC]; Beaubien,Anne-Marie [CMC]
>Subject: RE: 20020208: Canadian GEM model (fwd)
>
>
>Hi Linda,
>Nice to hear from you and glad you liked the calendar !
>I want to clearly confirm, once again, our commitment here at the Canadian
>Meteorological Center in participating in the Unidata program in prodiving
>GRIB data from our operational models.  I won't go through the many reasons
>why this specific file, while it started on a good foot, has not moved at
>the right pace at our end over the last year or so.  
>I am now confident that we are now ready to move ahead and collaborate to
>support this activity at our end.  First, we are now currently implementing
>the most recent LDM upgrade to ensure that the GRIB data that we post is
>officially identified as "CMC" on the Unidata network.  The people involved
>at our end are:
>   - Dov Bensimon (address@hidden), meteorologist in my team (CMC's
>Implementation Division)
>   - Anne-Marie Beaubien (address@hidden) , computer
>specialist in our Informatic Division.
>
>As Tim mentions below, we have a CMC colleague (Garry Toth) presently at
>your location for a COMET special course.  We would appreciate your
>collaboration to enable Garry and his colleagues to access the GEM regional
>model output through the  UNIDATA feed.
>
>Dov and Anne-Marie are ready today to perform tests in collaboration with
>your team. To help things out, would you kindly provide to us a contact name
>to pursue the proper installation or do you suggest they simply send an
>e-mail to address@hidden ?
>
>Of course, we will provide up-dated documentation to you very shortly.
>Thanks for your patience and help.
>
>Best regards,
>Richard.
>
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De: Linda Miller [mailto:address@hidden]
>Date: 11 février, 2002 09:43
>À: address@hidden
>Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden;
>address@hidden; address@hidden
>Objet: 20020208: Canadian GEM model (fwd)
>
>
>Hi Richard,
>
>First, let me thank you so much for the Canadian Weather Trivia calendar.
>The 
>picture for February reminds me of growing up in Minnesota!
>
>I'm taking this opportunity to forward the message below, received by
>Unidata's 
>support staff.  We have received a few requests for the GEM data, and have 
>wondered what happened to the plan for making it available using the LDM.
>If I 
>recall, the LDM was installed over a year ago, testing took place and I
>thought 
>we were going to create a community announcement about the data sets being 
>available.  It seems like we got off track somehow, but I wondered if it's 
>possible to resurrect the collaboration?
>
>Can you call me or send an email to discuss the possibility of revisiting
>this 
>effort?  I've copied Ekaterina, who was involved earlier.
>
>Thanks much!
>
>Linda
>
>---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>Date: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:48 PM -0700
>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
>To: Tim Alberta <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>Subject: 20020208: Canadian GEM model
>
>
>Tim,
>
>We do not currently receive any GEM data from CMC. There is no
>current source for this data on our IDD.
>
>We set up an LDM connection with CMC over a year ago, and did
>receive the data for a short time. They have not continued to maintain
>a running LDM on there end however. We have not seen any activity
>on that end for about a year.
>
>The good news is that GEMPAK can handle the CMC grib data just as
>all the other models we get, piped to dcgrib2 and decoded into
>GEMPAK grid files.
>
>Linda Miller was in contact with CMC originally. Perhaps there is
>some way to revive this interest given COMET's interest.
>
>By the way, the clock on your computer was set to Jun 1, 1998.
>
>Steve Chiswell
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: Tim Alberta <address@hidden>
>>Organization: UCAR/COMET
>>Keywords: 200202081904.g18J4ex20674
>
>>Hi Unidata folks,
>>
>>We're preparing for our next class, a Canadian Meteorological Center
>>class on winter weather.  They would like to have their model, the GEM,
>>used in the classroom.  Apparently CMC is working with someone at
>>Unidata to get the product into their LDM.  From our side, we'll need to
>>get our LDM set up to use the data in Garp.  Does anyone know what the
>>proper pqact.conf entry is, and if we need to Request from another
>>machine, or will all we need be the pqact entry?
>>
>>Also, does anyone know if there will be any hoops to jump through
>>GEMPAK/Garp wise?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tim
>>
>
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