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Hi there!


I am in the process of selecting hardware and software for use in visualization
of geophysical data (climate data from various sources including satellite, GED
COADS, GCM output etc). I would like to hear from people who have used various 
systems. My specific questions are:

     1. What hardware do you use? PC/mac/mainframe/workstation and as many
        specs. as you consider important.
     2. What software do you use? (eg. NCAR graphics) What Operating system
        does it run on? Is it public domain/free? If it is commercial software
        how much does it cost (ballpark figure will do)?
     3. What are your comments on the software you use? What do you feel are
        the strong/weak points of what you use?

I have access to PC's (386 with SVGA), IBM RS6000 (RISC), IBM 3081 (mainframe
with CMS o.s that has NCAR graphics ver. 3.1 and SAS), Convex C120 (unix o.s) 
and they are(can) all (be) connected. So any suggestions on how to utilize 
existing systems will be extremely helpful. Also, any comments on how I can
incorporate a CD ROM into this picture will be useful.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I am a grad student with oh maybe, a couple of thousand 
dollars I could get my advisor to fork out.

Please post or e-mail to makrisna@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu

I will post a summary if there is sufficient interest.

Thanks in advance.
krishna

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+ Krishna Achuta Rao, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engg., Tulane University  +
+That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists    +
+trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.  -Calvin & Hobbes         +