NCEP Central Operations (NCO) continued to migrate NAWIPS functionality into the AWIPS II system during the month of July, according to NCO Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli. "NCO also spent time testing the automated data flow from the Central Computing System to the AWIPS II Test Bed located in the World Weather Building," says Mainelli. Test data includes NCO-provided model data and observational data types including radar mosaics and NCEP-specific satellite imagery.
"The focus of our software migration and automated data flow this past month was to prepare for Phase Two of our Forecaster Integration Testing (FIT), which is expected to commence on 15 August," Mainelli continues. "The purpose of the FIT is to test the functionality of the National Center Perspective. Forecasters and IT Specialists from NCEP Centers will go through their pre-determined test plans of creating products, retesting fixed Discrepancy Reports from the February FIT, and conduct initial performance testing."
On July 26, 2011, David Plummer, the NCO Systems Integration Branch AWIPS Team Lead, presented the third AWIPS II training module webinar, which focuses on the National Center Perspective, introducing the user interface and variance training. Unidata will provide links to the training material when it becomes available.
Unidata Preview of AWIPS II
Participants in the GEMPAK portion of the 2011 Unidata Training Workshop, led by Unidata developer Michael James, were given the opportunity to test-drive the still-in-development CAVE (Common AWIPS Visualization Environment). For the workshop, the Unidata Program Center set up a single-server EDEX installation providing data for twenty CAVE workstations. Although the AWIPS II hardware configuration planned for operational forecast offices consists of multiple server machines supporting the CAVE workstations, this single-server/multiple-client AWIPS2 configuration shows promise for University computer lab settings.
Finally, the Unidata Program Center received its first unrestricted copy of the AWIPS II source code in late July. Program Center staff are in the process of evaluating the code and determining what steps will be necessary to create a package suitable for use by community members.
when will it be released to download and try?
Posted by bobby pleasant on August 07, 2011 at 06:41 PM MDT #
We don't have a specific date yet, but most likely the end of 2011 / beginning of 2012. AWIPS II is currently in development and unfit for open testing and use.
Posted by Michael James on August 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM MDT #
do you think i could be a tester for awips 2 when it's ready
Posted by bobby pleasant on August 26, 2011 at 11:07 AM MDT #
Bobby, if you contact me at mjames@unidata.ucar.edu we can talk more about the planned Unidata AWIPS2 testing program.
Posted by Michael James on August 29, 2011 at 01:57 PM MDT #