News: (4/12/99)
The graphs are now being made. They are in postscript but will soon also be in GIF format for viewing via your browser.

(4/13/99)
The Portfolio interface is starting to be melded into these pages. Soon you will be able to register and conduct runs which you can store and recall for later. Details on this will be here soon. The old interface is kept so that you may continue to play with SiB.

(4/15/99)
System is ready for initial use. You will be show the opeation and provided with passwds at the next meeting.

(Oct 25th, 2000)
Well, it's been over a year since we last looked at this code and it was majorly broken. There were two issues with this code
  1. the location of xmgr package which is used for the batch processing of the graphs had moved, causing an error
  2. an update to postgres wiped out the user table in the database scheme. This is a _major_ issue. I changed the scheme naming style and there should be no problems again, but it was still sad to see this happened.
Since SiB we have moved from CGI to Java Servlet engines for our dynamic content. Servlets, JSP, XML and such should make SiB far more portable and the framework far more usefull. As such we will now start a recoding of SiB in this manner as a test of this theory.

The major change will be all the user ID aspects will be done in Portfolio code and Sib will then use the Portfolio data API scheme for story its data. I would like to see the PS and GIF/PNG files created for the graphs done differently. For PS it's hard to imaging replacing xmgr or ghostview type programs. It will require a call from the servlet engine. For PS -> PNG or GIF conversion I may be able to use the Java image library but that is not a major issue. Using something like NCAR graphics might help the overall cleanness of the data pipeline, but for now I will not make any changes to the FORTRAN code and continue to handle the graphics in messy system calls from the interface code.