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

Avalon Demo

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CPU:  4 cores

RAM: 16 GB RAM

Disk Space: 500 GB Disk

Encoding Time: 

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

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• avalonmediasystem.org

• Hosted on AWS
• Main EC2 box: t2.xlarge
• RDS: cache.t3.micro
• ElastiCache: db.t3.micro

Northwestern University Production System 

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

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1. Avalon web application :  4GB RAM, 2 CPU(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 :  4GB RAM, 2 CPU
3. Matterhorn:  4GB RAM, 8 CPU
4. Adobe Media Server:  4GB RAM, 2 CPU

Transcoding

1. (VM):  
2. 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
     

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1. Adobe Media Server:  External campus enterprise streaming server

Indiana University Production System 

1. Avalon web application, Fedora, Solr:  
   • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-

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1. • 3.00GHz
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1. •  24GB
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1. • 40GB local storage plus 250GB NFS storage
     

1. MySQL: 

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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

* FFmpeg Supported Source Formats and Codecs

Indiana University Pilot System 

1. Avalon application (a VM: 4-core, 16 GB memory, 1TB disk, mostly unused ) http://avalon-pilot.dlib.indiana.edu 
2. Transcoding machine (IBM 3650 model 3 hardware: 12 hyperthreaded cores (looks like 24); 120GB memory 8TB disk, with <1TB currently allocated to Avalon) - this is a three-year-old machine. Replacement plans are in the works.
3. This system uses Indiana University's Adobe Media Server instance.

Distributed OVA

CPU: 1 Virtual CPU

RAM: 3GB

Disk Space: 500GB (virtual, auto-expanding)

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1. External service
2. Transcoding (physical box):  
   • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz, 12 cores, 24 threads
   • RAM: 128GB
   • Disk Space: 12TB
     
3. Wowza Media Server:  External campus enterprise streaming server