Major A writes: > > Locally I have about 220Gb of HD space dedicated towards storing the > > original raw data. The intermediate preprocessed form of the data. > > The shared edge data. And the final scenery. > > Oh. I didn't expect it to be that much...
I'm not maxed out yet, and occaisonally I keep different copies or different variants of things for various reasons. I don't feel cramped right now, but I'm not exactly swimming in an overwhelming abundance of extra disk space. > > If we get SRTM data for the whole world, that will have to jump up > > substantially. > > Can't things be done in sections? Why would one want to do the whole > world in a single operation? Sure, but there's some sort of coolness factor related to building the entire world. :-) > If processing involves a lot of data copying, you'd probably be better > off keeping everything on a single computer. Use a multiprocessor > machine with lots of storage and lots or RAM. If someone is donating hardware, I could live with either approach. :-) > Just an idea: how about using the HP TestDrive farm? They have some > nice computers there such as a quad 1GHz Alpha. It would be > necessary to ask for their permission first, but this being an > open-source project, I wouldn't think this would be a problem. We > can then give credit on the website or so. What kind of disk space can they give us? Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
