hello Cameron, I finally got the rcmet VM up and running. (had to turn on VT-x in the bios).
Anyway it's prompting me for a username and password that I didn't see on the download site. Thanks, Colin Colin Talbert GIS Analyst and Developer US Geological Survey [email protected] USGS Fort Collins Science Center 2150 Centre Ave. Bldg. C Fort Collins, CO 80526 (970) 226-9425 USGS North Central Climate Science Center (970) 492-4283 Work schedule: Monday - 7:00 - 3:00 (NC CSC) Tuesday - 7:00 - 3:00 (NC CSC) Wednesday - 7:00 - 3:00 (FORT) Thursday - 10:00 - 6:00 (NC CSC) Friday - 7:00 - 5:30 (FORT) On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Cameron Goodale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Colin, > > My name is Cameron and I am glad you want to know more about the project. > The project has spun out of an internal JPL project called The Regional > Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES). Details on that project can be > found at the JPL Project website [1]. That site contains links to > publications and more data about the internal JPL folks. > > We are really early in the incubation process and working to extract and > refactor a lot of the code. The idea is that doing this will enable us to > create a small core library that can used to support higher level > capabilities. > > Installation (there are a couple options): > If you just want to demo the evaluation app JPL built, then you can use a > Virtual Machine from JPL. Download from here: [2] It is an ova files, so > any VM software should be able to run it. > > If you want to use an installer the team has been working on you can use > the easy-rcmet tool that uses buildout. Instructions are on the wiki here > [3]. > > Since you are on a Windows machine I am 99.9% sure easy-rcmet won't cut it. > One option is to download and install Continuum Analytics 'Anaconda' > Python distro from here [4]. You will also need to download and install > NetCDF4 [5] and Basemap Toolkit for Matplotlib [6]. > > To get up and playing with a demo the fastest the JPL VM is your best bet. > You can install Oracle's Virtual Box for free and it will run the ova > files easily. If you hit any snags or problems let us know and we will be > more than happy to help. > > Cheers, > > > Cameron Goodale > > 1 - http://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov/ > 2 - http://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov/training/downloads > 3 - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLIMATE/Easy-RCMET > 4 - http://continuum.io/downloads > 5 - https://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/ > 6 - https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-toolkits/ > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Talbert, Colin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm new to this project but curious to explore it's capabilities. > > > > I looked around the apache site but didn't see much beyond the source > code. > > Before investing too much time I'd like to look over some papers, > > documentation, or presentations that describe the project. Where could I > > find these materials. > > > > Next I would like to install the package to play with it. Are there any > > instructions for installing it? I'm using Windows 7 and the Python 2.7 > > installation that comes as part of VisTrails (or possibly the Enthought > > Python Distribution or ???). > > > > Finally are there some working examples I could try out? > > > > Thanks, > > Colin > > > > Colin Talbert > > GIS Analyst and Developer > > US Geological Survey > > > > [email protected] > > > > USGS Fort Collins Science Center > > 2150 Centre Ave. Bldg. C > > Fort Collins, CO 80526 > > (970) 226-9425 > > > > USGS North Central Climate Science Center > > (970) 492-4283 > > > > Work schedule: > > Monday - 7:00 - 3:00 (NC CSC) > > Tuesday - 7:00 - 3:00 (NC CSC) > > Wednesday - 7:00 - 3:00 (FORT) > > Thursday - 10:00 - 6:00 (NC CSC) > > Friday - 7:00 - 5:30 (FORT) > > >
