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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- Hosted on AWS
- Main EC2 box: t2.xlarge
- RDS: cache.t3.micro
- ElastiCache: db.t3.micro
Northwestern University Production System
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- Avalon web application, Fedora, Solr:
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz
- RAM: 24GB
- Disk Space: 40GB local storage plus 250GB NFS storage
- MySQL: External service
- Transcoding (Matterhorn) (physical box):
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz, 12 cores, 24 threads
- RAM: 128GB
- Disk Space: 12TB
- Adobe Media Server: External campus enterprise streaming server
Distributed OVA
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