CAS Production Set Ups

Organization

JVM

CAS Version

CAS Population

# of CASified Applications

Authentications/sec

Hardware/Software

University of Connecticut

IBM Java 1.4.2

 

~ 50,000

 

 

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, virtualized on a z890 mainframe

Dartmouth College

Sun Java 1.5

3.0.6

15k staff/students + 70k alumni

~50 including Blackboard, Nolij, Documentum, Shibboleth, all PL/SQL apps, Trac

 

2x Dell 1855 Dual 3Ghz Xeon 4GB RAM, Raid 1 HDDs; Running under RHEL 4 inside Apache 2.0.x/Tomcat 5.5 with mod_jk; currently hot/warm manual failover. Will be hot/hot with JBoss clustering when new load balancer is installed

Virginia Tech

Sun Java 1.5

 

~ 60,000

~ 15 (expected to increase) include uPortal, SciQuest, Banner Self-Service,
Confluence Wiki, VT Fileman, and numerous departmental web applications

 

2 Dell PowerEdge 2650s.  Each server has dual 2.4GHz and 2GB RAM. Servers are behind a load balancer and configured as a primary server with secondary hot failover.

Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche

Sun Java 1.5

 

 

 

 

 

California Polytechnic State University

Sun Java 1.3

2.x, modified

~ 60,000

~20, including uPortal, Blackboard, Oracle apps, PeopleSoft, Remedy, Confluence

Peak 25/sec, work day ave 3-4/sec.

3 x Sun V240 dual processor, 4GB RAM / WebSphere

Sony Online Entertainment

Sun Java 1.5

 

~ 500,000

 

 

 

University of Hawaii

Sun Java 1.5

2.0.6 server modified

50,000+

 

 

Sun V100 1xUltraSPARC-IIe 500 MHz with 1.0 GB RAM running Solaris 8 and a slave Sun ONE Directory Server instance.

University of Saskatchewan

Sun Java 1.5

 

~ 1000 (30K potential)

blogs, wikis, a web-based file manager and miscellaneous other web sites

 

HP DL-380 with two 3.4 GHz Intel Xeon processors and 4 GB of memory, running Linux.

Rutgers University

Sun Java 1.5

CAS 3.2.1

~ 50,000

> 20

 

Sun Fire V120, 1-UltraSPARC-IIe 648 Mhz, 2 GB RAM, 2-72 GB HD

Universidad de Navarra

 

 

~ 20,000

> 15

> 4

2x IBM x335 2xPentium XEON 3.0 (4 Gb RAM) running Oracle Application Server behind a foundry serveriron for load balancing

Université
Nancy 2

Sun Java 1.6

CAS 3.3.2

~ 20,000

~ 25

 

IBM X350 2xPentium XEON 3.2, 4 Gb RAM (running ldap replica)
same machine in failover mode only and using memcached

British Columbia Institute of Technology

SUN's jre 1.4.2

 

 

 

 

 

Yale University

Sun 1.4.2

CAS 2.x

~35,000

~100

15

Sun Enterprise 280R moving to Dell 2950

CSU, Chico

Sun 1.6

CAS 2.x

~17,000

~20

Varies dramatically

Dell PowerEdge 2850, RHEL 3

University of South Florida

Sun 1.6

CAS 3.2.1

55K Student/Staff 100K Alumni

In Production: GoogleApps, MediaWiki,  departmental webapps
In Testing: Blackboard (8/08), Shibboleth (7/08), Banner (12/08)

 

2x Dell PE 850 (Pentium4D @ 2.8Ghz; 2GB RAM); Failover to warm standby using Heartbeat.

 

University of Lethbridge

Sun Java 1.7

CAS 3.5.2~30,000

~10

  • Moodle
  • Shibboleth
 

2 x Virtual Machine/Debian/Behind a Load Balancer. Using Ehcache for HA/Clustering.

Tomcat 7.