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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/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:04:19 -0400 From: Frank Colby <address@hidden> To: James D. Marco <address@hidden> address@hidden Subject: Re: NOAAPort data server x86 configuration Jessica and all, Having read with interest and amusement all the wonderful things about Solaris and Linux, I just thought I would throw my 1 cent in here. We run the LDM on a solaris 2.6 machine -- dual intel processors with two 9gb scsi drives, soon to add another 30 gb. The machine seems to keep up with things well, and can do Garp displays without slowing. We have a Linux machine in our private network which ftps the model files from the LDM machine, and access these from intel (p200 ) workstations running win95,98, and using X-win32 (from starnet) as the xwindows interface. The win95,98 choice allows easy use of spreadsheets, wordprocessing and university licenses for all, and the xwindows gives us garp. The linux box is a p200 too, and we have run 5 simultaneous garp sessions without seeing too much slowing -- our network is more of a bottleneck. So by all means get 100mbit/s on your network, and lots of disk space on whatever machine you use as a server. Frank Colby UMass Lowell