This is a very sketchy history of ORPG software installations, documenting installations and customization work needed for GSD AWIPS development support.

Up through ORPG 8, the supported platform was a Sun host. We used mdorpg for this purpose through ORPG 7, as outlined below. Beginning with ORPG 6, an unofficial Linux version was available, which Darien built and we delivered to Lockheed Martin for RSA use. She also built Linux ORPG 8 and we ran it on montana to deliver data to fsld and alps, and we ran it on dylan for ConOps.

Beginning with ORPG 9, Linux is officially supported by the ROC (and this is also the last version for Sun). ORPG 9 runs on RHEL4, and we chose to put this on dx5-alps, which is a box we had set up for ConOps/SvcBu, but hasn't been put into service.

Radar data come to our ORPG clone via LDM, fed by the Unidata CONDUIT (272kB PDF) through U Maryland and GSD's ITS. We run LDM on dx5-alps under user fxa, and the data are passed to the ORPG suite by process read_ldm. See our RT Ops manual for more on the configuration.

  • ORPG Build 5 was installed on mdorpg on 15 April 2004. This was not a super-smooth install. Darien managed to crack most of the tough issues, including missing/incorrect configuration files. One problem I'll mention is that the data at first were being interpreted as coming from kmlb. My notes mention that this was corrected by getting the right adaptation parameters file (/export/home/v1.13/adapt00040.KFTG.rpg.17Jul2003-23-24-50) in place.
  • mdorpg was updated with ORPG Build 6 on 21 Dec 04. No details are available.
  • ORPG Build 6.1 patch was applied 16 Aug 05. This comprised new versions of p_server, superob_vel, and hci.
  • ORPG Build 7 was installed on mdorpg on 25 Oct 05.
  • Darien set up ORPG Build 8 on montana in January 2006. We started using it to supply data to fsld on 7 Mar. Joe copied the montana setup to dylan in May for ConOps support. After ConOps was over, we put alps ingest back to montana.
  • We installed ORPG Build 9 on dx5-alps in July 2007, and switched fsld and alps ingest over to this version/host from ORPG 8/montana.
  • We set up ORPG Build 10 on cx-alps in September 2007, to use for RSA and OB8.3 testing. Up until 4/08, we brought in simulated data from 'NOP3' and made it look like kvbx for RSA testing. We updated to ORPG10v1.14 (final) in 19 May, and are using krtx LDM data to masquerade as kvbx.
  • On 20 May 08, we copied the Build 10 tree from cx-alps to dx5-alps, slightly tweaked the settings for kftg, and fired it up, since NWS was installing Build 10 on the kftg ORDA. (We had to pull a couple of executables off the Build 10 CDs, since there are some new ones not included in the public CODE version.)
  • We'd been using the OB9 versions of hireseet and hiresvil in our ORPG10 suite on cx-alps and dx5-alps. While looking into some ORPG 10 issues at Vandenberg, we discovered that these old versions do not run in Build 10, so we pulled the new verions of these from the CD and put them in place on 11 Sep 08 on both dx5- and cx-alps. (These are the files mentioned in the 20 May bullet.)
  • dx5-alps began reporting high-temperature warnings in early May 09, then failed 19 May. We reconfigured cx-alps to bring in kftg data and pointed fsld, alps, and a2dp ingest there. For now, we don't have any simulated kvbx data for RSA.
  • After repair of dx5-alps, we installed ORPG Build 11 in August 2009. We moved alps, a2dp, and fsld ingest back to dx5 on 1 Sep.
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