Hope so, as soon as we've got it all running. Give us some time! :) And on a personal note: Your English has improved massively over the last > months! Seems you benefit from the community in lots of ways...
Yeah, well, wait to listen to me talking... perhaps you'll have to take back your words! :P But thanks, anyway :$ 2011/9/9 Schulte Olaf A. <[email protected]> > 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] > _______________________________________________ >
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