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20030513: UFRJ as a top level IDD node for South America (cont.)

>From:  David Garrana Coelho <address@hidden>
>Organization:  UFRJ
>Keywords:  200210011729.g91HTQ111931 LDM-6 IDD-Brazil

Hi David,

>       I'm writing to inform you of the recent problems you may have
>noticed in LDM activity on brisa. We had (another) power outage in the
>building last saturday night, and since no one come here until monday, our
>local network router had problems restarting by itself (power outage
>longer than no-breaks battery lifetime).

OK, that explains some of the things we were seeing.

>       Since we may become the South America "hub" of IDD network in near
>future, any problems who affect our machine will affect machines
>subordinated to us due to network topology.

That is correct.  I have high hopes for the use of IDD-delivered data
in Brazil and Argentina.

>To help adress this issue, I
>spoken to my fellow researchers in our Lab to use some of our (small may I
>add) resources to buy a machine, a Celeron or something like that, with a
>rather big hd (one or 2 of 80Gb), and place it on a building next to ours,
>who have a space dedicated to provide power and network access
>24hours/7days a week.
>       It's not official yet, we speaking to the ppl who manage the
>mentioned space to allow us to use it (without cost), and we haven't
>bought the machine yet, I'm just writing to ask your opinion about that.

I think that it is a good idea to have a machine that plays a crutial
role outside of one's domain on conditioned, uninterruptible power, and
also house it in a location where its operation can be monitored in a
more than casual way.

>       If it goes as planned, it's a more "official" aproach of the
>question, but not a solid one(yet). We may continue our efforts on brisa
>as they are currently, I'm only letting you know that I am putting some
>effort to improve/solve the issues we having lately, in a time horizon of,
>lets say, 1 or 2 months from now, (my best guess).

I really appreciate you sending the heads-up along!

>       Btw, not meaning to rush you (again), really. We here are very
>eager to see MCIDAS since we had seem the capabilities of it in Unidata
>homepage.  The ability to put satellite/obs data/model output on the same
>product, on the fly...sounds too good to be true....=). Our teachers and
>researchers are very anxious to see this working. (So do I) :=)

I apologize for my slowness on getting things working.  Every day, I
have the best intentions of setting up the necessary cron jobs on brisa,
and every day some support tasks crop up that can't wait for action.
I will try to get something working as soon as possible so we can
go back and forth on positioning, areal extent, and resolution of
the sectors.

Thanks for the update (and prodding :-)

Tom
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