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[AWIPS #UET-511766]: AWIPS II Home Installment

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  • Subject: [AWIPS #UET-511766]: AWIPS II Home Installment
  • Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:45:31 -0600
> Hi, I'm looking into purchasing a server and running awips 2 in my home
> office. I have spoken to a few colleagues who have told me that this could
> be potentially very labor intensive (something I'm OK with because I love
> random projects). Assuming I have the right hardware (Red Hat, dedicated
> server, etc.), would this be feasible or should I stick to IDV?
> 
> -Andrew Schwartz
> 
> 



Hi Andrew,

Both EDEX and CAVE are fairly straightforward to install and use, as long as 
the hardware and software requirements are met, meaning x86_64 RHEL/CentOS 6, 
OpenGL 2 capable graphics card, 8+ GB memory (EDEX) and 4+ CPU cores (EDEX).   
A big caveat is that installing EDEX at home will require you to arrange your 
own data access, to pull in live data via LDM, which of course will take a lot 
of your bandwidth if you're ingesting high volume feeds such as NEXRAD3 and 
CONDUIT.

The instructions for installing are at 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/doc/install.html 

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UET-511766
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: High
Status: Open