3) I can say that from use, MIR can handle the increased number of chunks - Charlie wrote the readdata routine to rebin SWARM bands into further new chunks, and as far as i'm aware (Charlie, please let us know) there are no restrictions on that. However, the raw data size may be an issue, since an 80 GB raw file would require upwards of 200 to 250 GB of RAM, which I don't think any machine has.  Or are you assuming the 'expanded' data file is 80 GB? If so, that might be ok. Charlie?


Indeed there is no restrictions on number of chunks in MIR.  CFA0 and MARS have 256 GB RAM, which should be able to handle at least 50 GB data.  For a full 80 GB data, we probably need to resample/rebin the chunks before loading it into IDL.

Charlie