Installation Requirements, Compatibility and Supported Platforms

This section defines the hardware and software requirements for the SuperSTAR suite of products.

This information is subject to change. Please contact customer support if you wish to confirm specific details.

Support Levels

The following table defines four "support levels". These support levels are used throughout the compatibility tables in this section.

Hardware and Operating System Compatibility

The following tables list the platforms supported by the modules and features in SuperSTAR Release 8.0 (SuperADMIN (SA)-only release).

Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Platform Z Linux are not supported for release 8.0. The next supported release is to be determined.

SuperCROSS on Windows Server 2003 requires SP1 or later. SuperCROSS also requires .NET 4.x (the installer will install this automatically if necessary).

Client

SuperCROSS on Windows XP requires SP3.

SuperCROSS also requires .NET 4.x (the installer will install this automatically if necessary).

Web Platform Compatibility

The SuperSTAR web products support the following application servers:

A Java 6 or 7 compliant Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is also required, such as Oracle's Java SE 7 JRE.

Java Compatibility

GIS and Mapping Compatibility

The SuperSTAR web products support the following mapping services:

Database Compatibility

The list of databases that have been tested as part of Release 8.0 GA are shown below.

• All products use JDBC to connect to the database with the exception of mdcorbaserver, which uses ODBC.
• All testing was carried out on Windows 2008 Server R2 with the exception of Teradata where a VMWare software appliance (Teradata-express-13.10.00.05) has been used.

The drivers that have been used for testing are shown in the table below:

Test Hardware

The following hardware on VMWare ESX 4.1 has been used in the testing of the SuperSTAR Release 8.0GA.

Customers should contact Space-Time Research when choosing hardware as the optimal configuration is dependent on many factors such as the size of the SXV4 database, the type of queries and the expected performance.

1 CPU = Xeon X5355 @ 2.66 Ghz (Single core, single thread)

Web Browser

A web browser is required to complete the server installation and to work with SuperWEB2. The support level for mainstream web browsers is as follows:

Available Ports

The default installation of SuperSERVER and SuperWEB2 requires a number of ports to be available on your internal network for communication between components. See Port Usage - SuperSTAR for full details.

Language Support

Accessibility Support

Accessibility standards exist to allow people with disabilities to be able to use websites. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published one of the most widely used guidelines for accessibility in WCAG 2.0. See http://www.w3.org for details of the Guidelines.

Space-Time Research has made good progress towards achieving WCAG Level A support in the 8.0 GA Release of SuperSTAR in the Web Product offerings (SuperWEB2 and SuperVIEW).

WCAG outlines four main design principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust.

Space-Time Research has improved the following components of these guidelines:

• Perceivable - the majority of the images now have alternate text.
• Operable - most functions can be controlled using the keyboard.
• Understandable - consistent navigation links are used through the product.
• Robust - tested with wide range of browsers. Release 8.0 GA includes support for following browsers:
  • latest stable Chrome
  • latest stable Firefox
  • Safari 6.0
  • Internet Explorer 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0

The specific components that have been converted for WCAG Level A conformance are as follows:

Other Support

Discontinued Support

Other Requirements