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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
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- Hosted on AWS
- Main EC2 box: t2.xlarge
- RDS: cache.t3.micro
- ElastiCache: db.t3.micro
Northwestern University Production System
Northwestern's Avalon System uses 4 machines (3 VM and 1 hardware):
- Avalon web application (VM):
- CPU: Xeon E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz, 2 cores, 4 threads
- RAM: 8GB
- Disk Space: 25GB local storage plus NFS storage
- Fedora, MySQL and the Solr indexer (VM):
- 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
- Adobe Media Server: External campus enterprise streaming server
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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
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Indiana University Production System
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- Avalon web application (a VM: 4-core, 16 GB memory, 1TB disk, mostly unused ) http://avalon-pilot.dlib.indiana.edu
- 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.
- 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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- 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 (physical box):
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz, 12 cores, 24 threads
- RAM: 128GB
- Disk Space: 12TB
- Wowza Media Server: External campus enterprise streaming server