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I will say that another option is to use Solaris x86..which I find to be far more stable under heavy load (no difference under light load) for LDM/McIDAS/GEMPAK decoders. Sun is fully supporting it now and is FINALLY optimizing it for speed on x86, those changes should be available early next year. The OS can be downloaded for $20, with a 1 CPU commercial license for $99, and a 2 CPU commercial license for $250, with patches freely available for the next 7 years or so until Solaris 9 is EOL'ed. Unfortunately Sun still doesn't quite get the idea of low-cost computing and refused to consider supporting internal HW RAID. They insisted on selling their expensive external HW RAID solution, or now their expensive FC solution. They finally see the light and are working with Adaptec and LSI to get HW RAID card drivers released for Solaris x86, but that won't be till early next year I imagine. Probably too late for many here. I know Unidata pretty much gave up on Solaris x86 (they are big FreeBSD fans now), as many of you have...but it's another option. Too bad Sun wasted all those years by ignoring x86 and treating it's customers badly. Robert Mullenax Weather Systems Administrator Universal Weather and Aviation
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