[Antelope] Antelope on Solaris X64 platforms

[Lyons, Jim]

We at the GSC are in the process of replacing some older SUN/Solaris
rackmount servers with SUN blades, most of which will be the X64 (Intel
or AMD CPU) variety.  I understand that Antelope is not supported on
these hardware platforms, even under Solaris.  Could you please confirm
this, and whether you have any plans to support them in future?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Jim Lyons
Geological Survey of Canada
Ottawa

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From: antelope-bounces at brtt.net [mailto:antelope-bounces at brtt.net] On
Behalf Of Mathias Franke
Sent: February 19, 2009 14:36
To: Majids at squ.edu.om
Cc: Yousf AL-Shijbi; Issa El-Hussain; antelope at brtt.net; Ogie Kuraica;
Salam Al-Hashmi; support; Mohamed El Idrissi
Subject: [Antelope] 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
Fax: +1-626-792 0146
E-Mail: mf at kmi.com
Web: www.kinemetrics.com <http://www.kinemetrics.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. 


================================
Danny J. Harvey, Ph.D.
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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