Hi all, I'm just resending this e-mail that was previously sent only to the "matterhorn" mail list. I hope you find it interesting.
Best regards Rubén Pérez El 8 de septiembre de 2011 14:21, Rubén Pérez <[email protected]>escribió: > Hi all, > > I proudly announce that the University of Vigo is going to start using its > new "advanced" pilot (this is to distinguish from the previous, much > smaller-scale pilot). > > Our new pilot consists of 10 fully-equipped classrooms and three > videoconference rooms scattered in different buildings along the three > university campuses (which are up to 100 km away). The pilot will record an > average of 100 ~ 200 hours per week and will be in test period for the Fall > Semester. If, as we expect, the results are good, we will finally go into > production for the Spring Semester, adding new rooms and courses to the > existent ones, thus additionally extending the number of hour recorded. > > We are basing our pilot in the freshly-baked 1.2 Release, in combination > with a highly-customized version of the capture agent. But we are also using > a non-standard deployment that has shown very promising results in our > preliminary tests: the capture agents will function as workers in their idle > periods, thus creating a rather large network of physical workers, instead > of a few very powerful --perhaps virtual-- worker machines. This experiment > implies using slightly more powerful machines for the capturers/workers, but > we believe it's worth because physical machines are more efficient for > CPU-intensive task than their virtualized counterparts. > > It would be very nice if you could share your opinions on this approach we > are taking, as well as point out the possible drawbacks you think it has. > Our tests have not found any important issues for the time being, but we > could use other sources of opinion, experience and criticism to improve our > pilot as much as we can. > > Thanks for your attention! > > Best regards > Rubén >
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