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<br />MAR-29-1994 09:48 FROM RIVERSIDE TECHNOLOGY,INC <br /> <br />TO <br /> <br />13038664474275 P.04 <br /> <br />.,-" <br /> <br />Usine: the WRPM. Year 1999 <br /> <br />To get a view of variables affecting the WRPM. let's look at a short story about the use of the <br />WRPM in the future--only five short years. The Story is intended to iIIu~trate key variables and <br />decisions, <br /> <br />S~DtemMT 12 19QQ 3" m Denver. <br /> <br />Angela Hernandez of the Consolidated Colorado Water Authority calls Frank Chen, a <br />Model Maintenance Specialist B in the joint water OSS Center of the CWCB and SEO. <br /> <br />"Frank, we have version 4.2 of the Colorado River WRPM running on our network and we <br />just ordered a new server and upgraded distributed graphics processor~, so we believe it's <br />time to upgrade to version 5.0. Can you E-mail us the software and set up a level one <br />training session? While we are at it. we'd like to teleconference the tmining to our <br />subbasin stations on the west slope," . <br /> <br />"Sure, Angela, The CCW A has a blanket license agreement and it provides for regular <br />upgrading and for training at the flat rates specified in the license agreement. I'll get the <br />E-mail to you this afternoon and you can relay it via the Internet to your stations. We'll <br />schedule the teleconference via Colorado Telcom for next week." <br /> <br />"Remember, Angela, in version 5.0 we have finally removed the last hard-wired data from <br />the WRPM, and it is now truly a generic, suslainable. defect-free model technology. fully <br />portable to all platforms and cleansed from all the computational biases and blind spots of <br />the original developers. We know this because the model audit team convened last year <br />by the Comprehensive Colorado River Collaborative Consensus Coordinating Body <br />(CCRCCCB or C2RC3B) gave us a rating of A+ for the model." <br /> <br />"That's great news, Frank. and it shows the wisdom of those engineers and managers who <br />set up the first guidelines for CROSS in the early '90s, Wow, what a return on the <br />taxpayers' investment!" <br /> <br />This Jillle story illustrates a few key points: <br /> <br />. A model maintenance office with a competent technical slaff engaged in hands-on <br />work; <br /> <br />. legal instruments to control the versions of the models and u.<er access; <br /> <br />. methods to self,finance parts of model maintenance and improvement; <br /> <br />. software transmittal methods; <br /> <br />. collaborative use of models; <br /> <br />. audits of the models; and <br /> <br />1495 <br /> <br />O].~ 11215 <br /> <br />4 <br />