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[AWIPS #PMP-525794]: Cloud AWIPS

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  • Subject: [AWIPS #PMP-525794]: Cloud AWIPS
  • Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:39:35 -0500
>I have tried installing CAVE on a couple of Macs that I have but none of them 
>have an NVIDIA chipset, therefore things don’t render >properly. I can’t even 
>use an eGPU to solve this issue as Apple has not written drivers for NVIDIA 
>chipsets in quite some time. I could >look at an older Mac Pro but that is 
>about the only avenue available in the Mac realm.
>
>I have a tower which I run CentOS on, along with the CAVE client but that is a 
>chunk of real estate that I can’t have in place for >long. I just can’t 
>justify having three different machine setups around my desk for three 
>different purposes. I just wish I could find >a solution that will work all 
>around.

Hello,

For Mac's the Intel HD graphics card is also an option as stated on our website 
(http://unidata.github.io/awips2/install/install-cave/#macos). A limitation of 
that is the RGB satellite products do not render. Do you have some examples of 
what is not working on your Macs?


Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PMP-525794
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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