Contacts & ... very practical Informations

1. ALADIN and ALATNET on the Web

These informations (and many many others ...) are available on the ALADIN usual server:

and on the ALATNET web server : http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/alatnet/

The ALATNET website is often updated and generally contains "fresh" informations. For the ALADIN website, the updates are ... as frequent as possible ! Please consult the page "New" on the ALADIN website to know the numerous recently updated pages !

2. Interactive registration of participations

Jean-Daniel Gril designed a convivial and interactive tool to make the registration of participation easier and consistent with the new MoU rules. Contact points have just to click on buttons and type the required informations ..Toulouse visitors : 2001 stays

3. Saturation of Météo-France computers

For two years there have been recursive problems of saturation with the GMAP accounts (groups mrpa, mrpe, mrpm) on the main computers of Météo-France, especially:

• not enough usernames available for new visitors (and unused accounts);
• too much memory used on kami (so that jobs abort);
• too much memory used on delage;
• too many files on delage.

If the limits on delage are exceeded, the access will be cut to all mrp* users.

A significant cleaning was performed at the end of August, with the help of all ALADIN teams:

• 15 accounts,
• 1 750 Mo on kami,
• 1 732 Go on delage,
• 386 082 files on delage,

within one week (22-29). However everyone should be careful and try suppressing useless files regularly (especially visitors before leaving Toulouse). No significant increase of ressources is expected before 2003.

4. New ALADIN contact points

(as defined in the new MoU; an associated e-mail list has been created : coordala++at++meteo.fr)

5. Public ftp

A public ftp is available since November 1995. Until 2000, it has been used to give ALADIN general informations. Now, the informations which can be found on the ALADIN website no longer appear on the public ftp. However, this public ftp can still be used for selective exchanges (ftp : cnrm-ftp.meteo.fr, on user anonymous, under the directory /pub-aladin).

6. Mailing lists

A cleaning was done within the mailing lists around ALADIN. Please consult the website (page "contact") for the contents of these lists.

The public lists :

• a general list has been recently updated : aladin++at++meteo.fr. It can be used for exchange of general interest about ALADIN project. It contains address of ALADINers at home.
• an e-mail list has been created: alatnet++at++meteo.fr. It can be used for exchange of general interest about ALATNET project. It contains address of people involved in the ALATNET project (ALATNET Young Researchers, mentors, co-ordinators).
• the stagmap++at++meteo.fr list contains the list of the ALADIN international Toulouse team : this very variable list (updated at the arrival or the departure of every visitors) permits to contact all visitors in GMAP,
• the list for questions and/or problems encountered with ALADIN software : alabobo++at++meteo.fr ,
• a list about the exchange of applications in the ALADIN's world: exchala++at++meteo.fr.

More "private lists" :

• a list with official ALADIN contact points for ALADIN work accounting : coordala++at++meteo.fr
• a list with correspondants for operational questions : operala++at++meteo.fr ,
• a list with correspondants for verification questions : verifala++at++meteo.fr .

Former lists

• the AWOC list : awoc++at++meteo.fr, list for Aladin WOrkstation Coordination no longer exists. Please use alabobo++at++meteo.fr instead.

7. ALADIN documentation

A list of ALADIN publications (papers, reports, ...) is available on the ALADIN website and updated twice a year : papers in NWP specialized international journals with a reviewing committee, technical reports, extended abstracts and publications in other journals and the ALADINthèque contents (ALADIN reports).

For the time being, only a short summary (2/3 lines) of each publication is available. It would be useful to provide also full articles ... as far as possible. Thus, if you are the author of one of the referenced publications and if you still have the .ps of your article (or .html, .aw, .txt), please contact eric.escaliere++at++meteo.fr.

Pages on PhD thesis have been updated with summary of already defended thesis.

Of course, do tell us if you have some ALADIN publications not referenced.

8. Next ALADIN/ALATNET visits

(provisional agenda for the period July-December 2001)

 ¨ in Toulouse

 ¨ in Bruxelles

 ¨ in Prague

 ¨ in Budapest

 ¨ in Ljubljana

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