SUN-based multimedia server
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Funded by JREI in 1999, with the aid of 50% hardware sponsorship from SUN and IBMs donation of DB2. It is to support research and provide a repository for multimedia. It is intended that large collections of multimedia are stored and referenced in the database for easy access. Access is available for any staff/researchers in ECS. Originally two Sun servers each with four 400MHz UltraSparc CPUs and 2 GBytes RAM, linked with Gigabit/s ethernet. The main /data storage is on two A1000 hardware RAID 5 boxes each with six 18GB disks. |
- hardware description - diagram to see roughly what the system looks like.
- software list - what's available
- Usage – estimates on who/what uses them.
Ernie
Provides some mass storage and a Solaris host for low-cpu intensive services. It
also has an /data/incoming area for temporary media and streaming
buffers etc. - keep that clean!
It runs:
- Real streaming software for video.
- DB2 database and a system to manage the multimedia data.
- Apache
- IIP image server
- tape backup on DLT with jukeboxes
Eric the second system has been decommissioned
Database description
Eric Morcambe and Ernie Wise were comedians who brought as big a smile to
many faces as I had when opening the SUN boxes for this kit
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