UNIDATA Equipment Proposal: Upgrading McIDAS for OS/2 at Iowa State University

爱荷华州立大学利用国家资金建立了一个裁研所系统。根据这项奖励，该系统将得到增强。裁研所在大气科学和农业气象方案的教学和研究方案中发挥着重要作用。例如，每年招收800多名学生的联合授课的气象学入门课程在每堂课开始的天气讨论中使用McIDAS产品。有几个研究项目依赖于“实时”数据输入，其中包括一个项目，该项目使用高空数据、雷达观测和卫星图像，以业务预报模式预测边界层害虫的活动。将购置的设备将实现五个主要目标：1.用三台IBM PS/2型号70计算机更新四台IBM PS/2型号60计算机。这将使爱荷华州立大学在裁研所终止对PC-McIDAS DOS版本的支持后，继续接收McIDAS气象产品；2.获得IBM PS/2型号80(将作为入口者)和四个型号70‘S的OS/2操作系统的联网软件(tcp/2)；3.获得PC X-Window软件，以便与现有的IBM PS/2型号60计算机一起使用，作为X-Window系统。目前管理裁研所SDM的现有Sun 3/160将作为X-Window服务器；4.增加一个700兆字节的硬盘单元，以提高将McIDAS和SDM产品存档的能力；5.开始采用COMET计算机学习模式，作为大学本科生和研究生教学的教育资源，并促进裁研所和COMET方案之间的协同作用。

Iowa State University established a UNIDATA system using State funds. The system will be enhanced under this award. UNIDATA plays an important role in the teaching and research programs for both the atmospheric science and agricultural meteorology programs. For example, the jointly taught Introduction to Meteorology course with a yearly enrollment in excess of 800 students uses McIDAS products in the weather discussion which begins each lecture. Several research projects depend upon "real-time" data input including a project which uses upper-air data, radar observations and satellite imagery in an operational forecast mode to predict insect pest movements in the boundary layer. The equipment to be acquired will accomplish five main objectives: 1. Update the four IBM PS/2 model 60 computers with three IBM PS/2 model 70 computers. This will allow Iowa State University to continue receiving McIDAS weather products after the UNIDATA support for the DOS version of PC-McIDAS terminates; 2. Obtain networking software (TCP/2) for the OS/2 operating system for the IBM PS/2 model 80 (which will act as the ingester) and the four model 70's; 3. Obtain PC X-Window software to use with the existing IBM PS/2 model 60 computers as X-Window systems. An existing Sun 3/160 which now manages UNIDATA SDM will act as the X-Window server; 4. Add a 700 megabyte hard disk unit to improve the ability to archive McIDAS and SDM products; 5. Initiate the introduction of COMET computer based learning models as an educational resource for undergraduate and graduate instruction at the university and to foster synergism between the UNIDATA and COMET Programs.