Page Comparison

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

Northwestern University

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Production System 

Northwestern's Pilot Avalon System uses 4 virtual machines (3 VM and 1 hardware): 

1. Avalon web application:  4GB RAM, 2 CPU
2. Fedora, MySQL and the Solr indexer:  4GB RAM, 2 CPU
3. Matterhorn:  4GB RAM, 8 CPU
4. Adobe Media Server:  4GB RAM, 2 CPU

Transcoding

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1.   
   • CPU: Xeon E5-

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1. • 2640 @

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1. • 2.50GHz, 2 cores,

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1. • 4 threads
   • RAM:

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1. •   8GB
   • Disk Space:

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1. • 25GB local storage plus NFS storage

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2. Fedora, MySQL and the Solr indexer:  
3. Transcoding (Matterhorn):  
   • CPU: Xeon E5-

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1. • 2690 v2 @

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1. • 3.00GHz 20 cores,

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1. • 40 threads
   • RAM:

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1. • 128GB
   • Disk Space:

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1. • 4TB local storage plus NFS storage
     
2. Adobe Media Server: 

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1. External campus enterprise streaming server

File Formats and Codecs Tested in NU Pilot System*:

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