Participants in the 2011 Unidata GEMPAK Training Workshop were the first class given the opportunity to test-drive CAVE (the Common AWIPS Visualization Environment). The UPC was testing a single-server standalone EDEX installation providing data for twenty CAVE workstations simultaneously. Although AWIPS2/CAVE is a 32 bit Java application, the UPC continues testing stability and usability on 64 bit systems. This single-server/multiple-client AWIPS2 configuration shows promise for University computer lab settings.
It'd be nice to get some definition of minimum hardware requirements (and some concept of "optimum" too) for EDEX servers. I'll take a swing at it but I'd hate to have configured a server that's not sufficiently beefy. Or that needs more storage initially.
Good presentation of CAVE and EDEX, by the way!
gerry
Posted by Gerry Creager on July 23, 2011 at 05:51 PM MDT #