1. RTH Exeter Status Report – 2014 (Doc 22)
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RTH Exeter Status Report – 2014 (Doc 22)
ET-WISC Toulouse 12/14 February 2014
Colin Mathison
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2. Contents GISC/RTH Exeter Status Report
RTH & NMS connectivity from Exeter
RTH message and file switch availability
RTH Items of interest
WIS Items of interest
WIS Issues
WIS Exeter vGISC
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3. RTH GTS connectivity from Exeter
Connection
Circuits
Protocol
Infrastructure
Melbourne, Australia
CCT = 2Mbytes IP BW = 2Mbytes
Alphanumeric, GRIB & T4
IP sockets / FTP
RMDCN / Internet backup
Toulouse, France
CCT = 100Mbytes IP BW = 50Mbytes
FTP
RMDCN
Offenbach, Germany
CCT = 50Mbytes IP BW = 50Mbytes
FTP / FTP
New Delhi, India
CCT = 4Mbytes IP BW = 4Mbytes
Alphanumeric & binary
Rome, Italy
CCT = 10Mbytes IP BW = 10Mbytes
All data
FTP / FTP
Tokyo, Japan
IP sockets
Moscow, Russian Federation
Pretoria, South Africa
IP Sockets / FTP
Washington, United States of America
CCT = 1Mbytes IP BW = 1Mbytes
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4. RTH GTS daily traffic RTH Messages in Files in Messages out Files out
Volume in (Mbytes)
Volume out (Mbytes)
Melbourne, Australia
19000
130
107500 30
295
950
Toulouse, France
56800
18750
278150
74000
1390
9300
Offenbach, Germany
383500
5700
110200
2800
10500
1248
New Delhi, India
15190
2470
44000
2370 72
572
Rome, Italy
3430
730
9000
1600 8
Tokyo, Japan
162400
100
138000
n/a
250
1050
Moscow, Russian Federation
10700
1250
390000
16500 25
9100
Pretoria, South Africa
2600
104000 2
690
Washington, USA
260000
332000 80
12000
6000
Total
913620
31730
97380
24542
28940
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5. NMC GTS connectivity from Exeter
Connection
Circuits
Protocol
Infrastructure
Brussels, Belgium
CCT = 10Mbytes IP BW = 10Mbytes
Alphanumeric, GRIB & T4
FTP
RMDCN
Montreal, Canada
CCT = 2Mbytes IP BW = 2Mbytes
All data
IP Sockets / FTP
RMDCN / Internet backup
Copenhagen, Denmark
CCT = 50Mbytes IP BW = 50Mbytes
Alphanumeric & T4
IP sockets
Reykjavik, Iceland
Dublin, Ireland
De Bilt, Netherlands
CCT = 4Mbytes IP BW = 4Mbytes
IP Sockets
Oslo, Norway
CCT = 20Mbytes IP BW = 20Mbytes
Lisbon, Portugal
Madrid, Spain
IP Sockets & FTP
ECMWF, United Kingdom
CCT = 100Mbytes IP BW = 100Mbytes
Megastream
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6. NMC GTS MSS daily traffic
Messages in
Files in
Messages out
Files out
Volume in (Mbytes)
Volume out (Mbytes)
Brussels, Belgium
1200
890
7400
1840 30 60
Montreal, Canada
2540
430
331100
7800 2
6500
Copenhagen, Denmark
2150
n/a
70000 20
105
Reykjavik, Iceland
220
20000
1700 8
121
Dublin, Ireland
400
2510
79000
1500
460
170
De Bilt, Netherlands
17500
89000
470
225
Oslo, Norway
2730
61000 3 98
Lisbon, Portugal
1100
370
26000
1250 42
Madrid, Spain
3200
1050
3400 26
ECMWF, United Kingdom
3020
830
162000
3080
20300
3500
Total
34060
6300
865500
20570
21343
10825
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7. RTH Switch availability
Availability figures for period March 2013 to February 2014:
WMO message switch – 99.99%
3 outages – 1 s/w upgrade, 1 network problem, 1 bug.
Total outage time 65 minutes.
FTP file switch – 99.9%
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8. RTH Items of Interest WMO GTS traffic only 25% of total MSS
RTH backups using FTP over internet
RMDCN access 2 x 20Mb/s, no load sharing
Established new backup GTS link with Lusaka
Migrated to RMDCN-NG Jan 2014
Establishing internet connection with Brasilia
ECWMF traffic on separate 100Mb/s link, via file switch
Internet link 2 x 100+Mb/s, via file switch
Trans-Atlantic NESDIS link 1.5Mb/s, via file switch
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9. OpenWIS GISC, vGISC, DCPC, NC will all use OpenWIS
MoU has been signed, to establish Non-profit, Limited liability Association to own IPR
OpenWIS will be in public GitHub repository
Documentation, test cases, etc
Open Source governance:
Ordinary member – annual fee, influence direction
Strategic member - big fee, control direction
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10. WIS Issues All Metadata will need updating in next year
ISO19115:2006 -> ISO19115:2013
WMO Core Metadata 1.3 -> 2.0?
What strategic approach to adopt?
Use WMO Core 1.1 -> Core 1.2 -> Core 1.3 as prototype?
Hierarchical metadata expected by users
Is it possible to have common sets defined?
Can common and specific sets be defined?
User search experience needs to be improved
Performance & Quality monitoring
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11. WIS – GISC Exeter status
Operational since June 2012
Offering backup of user subscriptions in co-operation with Météo-France
We currently have 44 registered users
Ingesting daily into 24hr Cache:
330MBytes of data
Catalogue contains 155,000 metadata records, with daily synchronisation with Météo-France, DWD, JMA, BOM, KMA and ECMWF
Implementing DCPC functionality
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12. Any questions?
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