[AG-TECH] Venue and Bridge Server specs

[Christoph Willing]

On 09/06/2005, at 5:38 PM, Natalia Costas Lago wrote:

[snip]
> It seems to me that the venue server doesnt need heavy resources, but 
> I'm not so sure about the bridge server.
>  
> I would really appreciate the sites that hold/organise very big 
> meetings (as Argonne with SCGlobal for instance), and have much 
> experience in these matters, give us some guidelines about the specs 
> recommended (or the place/website where I could gather some 
> information).

The Asia Pacific AG server runs on a 1GHz PIII with 1GB ram. It also 
runs a bridge server for a limited subset of the available venues. We 
encourage institutions with venues named after themselves to run their 
own bridges for those rooms.

The machine itself is extremely stable. The venue & bridge servers need 
a restart about once per month - we're currently thinking about doing 
this in a planned manner i.e. just restart 1st of the month (say), 
rather than waiting for a problem to be discovered through people not 
being able to enter a venue.


chris


Christoph Willing                        Ph: +61 7 3365 8350
QPSF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland