[AWIPS #NDX-973698]: Cave on RHEL 9

> Hello,
> 
> I am back from travel.
> 
> Faculty and IT management decided to go with Windows.
> 
> The main reason  is the lack of support of CAVE for RHEL9 ( or 8), and 
> version 20 does not work on RHEL 9 yet, and McIdas V is crashing the 
> graphical interface when closed properly on RHEL9. According to their webpage 
> it is a mesa driver issue. I had no time to deal with it before travel.
> I also could not guarantee that a later RHEL 9 update will not break my fixes.
> 
> 
> I had to change some things to install CAVE to a central location in order to 
> avoid firewall issues for each of the users, but I made it work.
> 
> 
> Our instructors have compared Cave version 18 on RHEL9 and Windows. You were 
> right Windows version is very noticeably slower. One of our professors thinks 
> it will be fine and the bottle neck still will be 25 or 50  students  
> requesting the same thing from the server all at once.
> The other is planing to use the VM version. That is also faster than the 
> native Windows version.
> 
> So, this is the state of the lab right now.
> 
> Thank you,
> 

Hi,

Thank you for providing us an update on what your Faculty and IT management 
decided on. 

Glad you have a solution going forward for this semester. I agree the VM 
version is much faster so that is an option if Windows proves to be too slow.

Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NDX-973698
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Critical
Status: Open
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