Congratulations Vigo and Rubén on this rather advanced pilot. Will there be a chance to see the recordings in the Vigo portal?
O > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:matterhorn- > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Rubén Pérez > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. September 2011 14:21 > An: Opencast Matterhorn > Betreff: [Opencast Matterhorn] New UVigo Matterhorn pilot #open_question > > 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 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
