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Hi Evan, I apologize for the slow response to the message below. We have some things going on with machines here that took top priority, and I had to finish setup on a machine that will be used as a ghost for machines we will be renting for our upcoming training workshop series. re: > Weather Trends would be more than willing to provide Unidata with both > hardware and human support. We have servers located in Houston, TX and > Bethlehem, PA. Our main server in Houston could be used as a sandbox by your > IDV/LDM/GEMPAK/NAWIPS-II development teams. Beta and Alpha versions of > development software could be compiled and tested on this server to ensure > they run properly in a 64bit RelH5 Enterprise OS environment. We've offered > similar support to the GEMPAK developer Michael James when testing out bug > fixes in GEMPAK 5.11.4. This server also has a large amount of available > bandwidth (1TB / month) which we could open up in the event of LDM failure at > one of the several feeder universities (i.e SUNY / Rutgers / Millersville). > We should be able to act as an LDM feeder for a day or two until the > university can get their Hardware back online. Beyond that timeframe we > might have to restrict our feed bandwidth so we don't blow past our monthly > limit (resulting in significant overage fees) as this bandwidth also includes > our business website/data traffic which has been steadily growing. Besides > hardware support, we have a team of Meteorologists with undergraduate, > graduate, and post-graduate degrees from Millersville, Rutgers, Penn State, > Albany, Plymouth State, and Wyoming who could support Unidata with > Meteorological support if needed. > > These are a few ideas that came up when discussing ways in which we could > support Unidata. If you can think of any other ideas, we'll definitely take > them into consideration. I will need to address your request in detail after I return from travel that starts Sunday morning. Again, I apologize for the delay... Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ADS-412407 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Open