Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!unmvax!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!catfish!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Scientific programs on Amiga Message-ID: Date: 2 Oct 90 09:09:34 GMT References: <31796@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Sep29.021658.26896@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <90273.105607UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> <13691@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 19 I am looking for a package for the Amiga (or for Unix) which is capable of handling rather large data sets. I have five years worth of data on environmental and mechanical parameters. This consists of 100 floating point numbers recorded at ten minute intervals. I have about 75% to 80% coverage of all the possible readings. I've pre-processed the data files so that each year (1986-1990) is in a separate file of about 30 megabytes. Eventually I would like to correlate this information to seeing statistics. Obviously, a program which processes this in-memory isn't much use. The only thing that I can think of that will do a reasonable job with this much data is SAS. (I always have a glimmer of hope that SAS/Lattice will come to my rescue.) Any ideas? -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.