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There are no hard and fast system requirements for running Avalon, but you will want to choose your system depending on your collection size, expected usage, and desired responsiveness.  Below are examples of systems running Avalon and simple statistics highlighting their throughput.

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  • CPU:  4 cores
  • RAM: 16 GB RAM
  • Disk Space: 500 GB DiskEncoding Time: 

This system uses Indiana University's Adobe Media Server instance.    

Northwestern University Production System 

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  1. Avalon web application (VM):  
    • CPU: Xeon E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz, 2 cores, 4 threads
    • RAM:  8GB
    • Disk Space: 25GB local storage plus NFS storage
  2. Fedora, MySQL and the Solr indexer (VM):  
  3. Transcoding (Matterhorn) (physical box):  
    • CPU: Xeon E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz 20 cores, 40 threads
    • RAM: 128GB
    • Disk Space: 4TB local storage plus NFS storage
  4. Adobe Media Server:  External campus enterprise streaming server

File Formats and Codecs Tested in NU Pilot System*:

  • Formats: MPEG-4, FLV, AVI, MOV, OGG, 3GP, RM
  • Codecs: avc, aac, pcm, on2 vp6, mp3, xvid, dv, theora, vorbis, h263, amr_nb, rv40, cook

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Indiana University Production System 

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