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>From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marianne=20K=F6nig?=" <address@hidden> >Organization: EUMETSAT >Keywords: 200301160946.h0G9kHx05499 McIDAS build install Hi Marianne, >This is an easy one: > >On one of your fastest UNIX machines (SUN? HP? Or what?), how long does a comp >lete build and install of mcidas take? The fastest machine I build McIDAS-X and -XCD on is a dual 1 Ghz processor Pentium IV machine that has 4 GB of RAM and 10,000 RPM IBM SCSI disks and is running FreeBSD 4.7. Building my entire distribution takes just over 8 minutes. Installation takes another 1.5 to 2 minutes. My compilation environment on this machine is GNU gcc and g77. I have to add that the Unidata release of McIDAS is a lot larger than the SSEC one. In addition to adding in XCD, I add a number of routines not supported by SSEC. The speed record for building McIDAS is at one of my user's sites. The platform was almost identical to the machine I described above including running FreeBSD. Build and install times there were just under 8 minutes. The typical amount of time it takes to build on other platforms I support varies widely. The typical time on a Sun E450 is 40 minutes. The time on our Compaq OSF/1 and HP-UX 11.0 machines is more like 20-30 minutes. Our IRIX 6.5 machine which is almost 5 years old takes almost two hours as does our AIX 4.3 machine which is also about 5 years old. Are you looking to get a faster machine for running McIDAS? >Thank you, No worries. Tom >From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marianne=20K=F6nig?=" <address@hidden> >Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:57:39 +0100 >To: <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20030116: build/install times for Unidata McIDAS on > various platforms Thank you for the info. We are just generally looking for faster machines, and as my mcidas build and install took almost 3 hours this week I thought that a comparison of these times is a good information for my boss (to stress the issue that we need faster machines). Have a good day, Marianne