[Antelope] Linux antelope

[Issa El-Hussain]

Mathias:
Perhaps we can discuss this in Marrakech in March.
Issa
Dr. Issa El-Hussain
Director, Earthquake Monitoring Center
Sultan Qaboos University
P.O.Box 50, Al-Khoudh
PC 123, Muscat, Oman
Tel (968) 24142642
Fax (968) 24413137
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mathias Franke 
  To: Majid AL-Saifi 
  Cc: antelope at brtt.net ; support ; nikolaus.horn at zamg.ac.at ; Issa El-Hussain ; Khalfan Al-Tobi ; Salam Al-Hashmi ; Yousf AL-Shijbi ; Mohamed El Idrissi ; Ogie Kuraica 
  Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:36 PM
  Subject: FW: Linux antelope


  Dear Majids:

  I hope this e-mail finds you in good health and spirit. I guess you successfully finished your studies.

  I got your e-mail forwarded to me and I am more than happy to answer your questions. Before that I would like to inform you that, in light of the fact that Sun does not build any SPARC based workstations, BRTT and Kinemetrics came to the consensus that Apple workstations will be the future platform for networks that use workstations. We found that Apple provides, similar to Sun, a tight integration of hardware and O/S making Antelope installation and configuration predictable and maintainable. All efforts are made by BRTT to provide an Antelope version on Apple workstations that provides the reliability of mission critical seismic networks. On the other hand, Kinemetrics will provide installation and configuration services for Apple workstations.

  Hence, you can get an Apple Mac Pro workstation with 8-cores at up to 3.2GHz (BRTT carried benchmark tests with impressive results), up to 32GB RAM and a multi-client server O/S. You can have a hardware RAID in the Mac Pro with up to 4TB. And the Mac Pro is considered one of the best engineered INTEL-based computer on the market. So, you can consider your basic requirements covered.

  With regards to your questions:
  Ad 1)
  Antelope licenses are node licenses; that means you need one license for each computer you run Antelope on. If you have one workstation you will need one RTU license independent of the number of terminals your are operating off that workstation. 
  Ad 2)
  We would recommend to use Apple Mac Pro (see discussion above); we cannot make a recommendation for PC hardware.
  Ad 3)
  Antelope will run on the current Mac OS X Server v10.5. For Linux: Antelope runs on SLED 10.2. 

  If you need more information or want to discuss this issue, do not hesitate to contact me.


  Kind regards,
  Mathias
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  Mathias Franke, Ph.D.
  Manager - Open System Solutions

  Kinemetrics, Inc.
  222 Vista Ave.
  Pasadena, CA 91107
  USA

  Tel.: +1-626-795 2220 X699
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  E-Mail: mf at kmi.com
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  Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:41 AM
  To: Ogie Kuraica; Mathias Franke
  Cc: support
  Subject: Fwd: Linux antelope


  I had rather recommendations like this come from Kinemetrics. 



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  President
  Boulder Real Time Technologies, Inc.
  2045 Broadway Street, Suite 400
  Boulder, CO 80302, USA








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    From: Majid Al-Saifi <majids at squ.edu.om>
    Date: February 18, 2009 12:34:49 AM MST
    To: <antelope at brtt.net>, <support at brtt.com>, Nikolaus Horn <Nikolaus.Horn at zamg.ac.at>
    Cc: Issa El-Hussain <elhussain at squ.edu.om>, Khalfan Al-Tobi <kitobi at squ.edu.om>, Salam Al-Hashmi <salam95 at squ.edu.om>, Yousf AL-Shijbi <alshijbi at squ.edu.om>, Mohamed El Idrissi <midrissi at bluewin.ch>
    Subject: Linux antelope


    Dear all:
    We are using antelope installed in sun (Solaris 10) and we plan to acquire Linux  so that we get a powerful server with a large storage (central database) and open different terminal in it for several users who can analyze and review the data simultaneously. Now my questions are:
    1)      Do we need to get additional antelope license for the server only or for each terminal?
    2)      And what is your advice to get reliable and cost wise solution in such situation?
    3)      Is there any special system requirements to get Linux based antelope?
    Looking forward to see your answers
    Kind regards
    Majid Al Saifi
    Earthquake monitoring center
    Sultan Qaboos University
    Oman     

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