Dspace Needs a new home

Posted on February 9, 2005 by Wesley Wright

The non-production, unsupported, unauthorized "test" version of Dspace, currently found at

    http://badger.uvm.edu/dspace

has hit the wall: interest in the Dspace platform has been sufficient to pretty much fill the tiny 14GB drive installed in badger — in fact, I did fill it last Thursday, upsetting a couple of researchers. I now have a (funded) researcher on my back looking to upload another GB of stuff.

Anyway, it needs a new home, and it is time to go production.

Dspace runs as a web application under the Tomcat-Jakarta java server. It also uses postgreSQL as a database server (or, with the latest version of Dspace, Oracle, but not mySQL). badger is currently running Fedora core. I also have a test Dspace installation on weasel.uvm.edu, running Mac OS X. QUite frankly, it was easier to install on OS X than Fedora: fewer Java installation and configuration issues. It doesn’t need a whole lot of horsepower, but it could conceivably use a mess of desk space.

Keith asked Steve to ask ACS people to file Project Plans. My plan includes making Dspace a production application. Fine, so I asked Steve yesterday, what now? he said write a one page proposal, and spec out a server.

So I did: a $10,000 Xserve with Xserve-raid or a more modest $4600 starter set

But I imagine TSG has other ideas, maybe even a concern or two. I would like to hear them.

Wesley’s Pirate DreamSpaceServer

  • Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5
  • 2GB DDR400 ECC SDRAM – 2x1GB
  • 80GB ADM (1x80GB Serial ATA boot disk)
  • Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
  • Fibre Channel PCI-X card – (lower slot)
  • PCI video card (upper slot)
  • Xserve RAID (4x250GB)
  • Mac OS X Server, Unlimited License
  • Mac OS X Server Maintenance 36 Mths Unl. Client (Single Server), price per server

Subtotal $10,477.00

Wesley’s LittleSpaceServer

  • 2GHz PowerPC G5
  • 2GB DDR400 ECC SDRAM – 4×512
  • 880GB ADM (1×80 (boot) & 2x400GB Serial ATA (software raid)
  • Combo Drive (CD-RW/DVD-ROM)
  • PCI video card (upper slot)
  • Mac OS X Server, Unlimited License
  • Mac OS X Server Maintenance 36 Mths Unl. Client (Single Server), price per server

Subtotal $4,618.00

Related posts:

  1. Dspace now on badger
  2. Dspace Ddied, resurrected
  3. Dspace LDAP finishing touches
  4. Dspace 1.3 Alpha

About Wesley Wright

Born on a mountain top near New York City, Craziest state in the land of the pretty. Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree, Killed him a bear when he was only three.
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