System Administration

Sony Vegas6+DVD, a video editing software, was purchased and installed to be used in various video projects underway (H. Gosden)

An EarthLink ISP was procured to be used by the RAMM Branch scientists while on travel. This was a big hit with the scientists who traveled and therefore the ISP Service agreement was extended for another year (H. Gosden)

The RAMMB NOAAPORT ingest installation was completed and the ingest is working properly. Efforts are underway to procure hardware and software to emulate an AWIPS/D2D workstation so that the data can be displayed in real-time.( D. Molenar)

Transition off of the last surviving RAMMB HP workstation is complete. A secondary server has been configured to mirror the primary RAMMB Linux server to prevent work disruption during primary server down time. (D. Molenar)

Hardware requirements, evaluation, and cost/performance analysis has been completed for RAMMB utilization of 2006 NOAA IT Refresh funds. (D. Molenar)

GOES-East/West RAMSDIS Upgrade : In continuing our infrastructure upgrade on our lab systems, the GOES-East/West RAMSDIS system was upgraded to a faster system and switched over from Windows to a Linux operating system.  This system also serves as a server for generating RAMSDIS Online products. (D. Watson)

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