Deployed uPortals

Deployed uPortals

See also the uPortal website.

Institution and Contact

uPortal version

Details - Layout Manager, Authentication, Email, etc.

Server Setup

Usage

Info Last Updated

Institution and Contact

uPortal version

Details - Layout Manager, Authentication, Email, etc.

Server Setup

Usage

Info Last Updated

Azusa Pacific University

2.1.5

SLM, CAS against OpenLDAP and AD

IBM xSeries Dual Xeon 2.80GHz 4GB RAM, Red Hat EL AS release 3 (linux kernel 2.4.x), Sun JDK 1.4.2_06, Tomcat 5.0.27, Apache HTTP (simple proxy), PostgreSQL 7.3.6

~11,000 users

Unknown

BCcampus.ca

2.4.2

ALM, CAS

Sun-Fire-V240 : 2GB Ram : Solaris 9 : Apache 1.3 : Tomcat 5.0.28 : JDK 1.4.2_06 : SQL Server 2000

~30,000

Aug 2005

Boston University, School of Management (live)

3.0.1

DLM, CAS, AD

Single Red Hat linux, 16GB RAM, Apache 2.0 + mod_jk + mod_ssl, Tomcat 5.5.x, JDK 1.5.x, Oracle 10x

~5000

Oct. 2008

Bristol University Staff Portal[intro]

2.1.4

SLM, CAS, Currently does not integrate with email.  (planning a PAM CAS based solution)

Sun Fire V440, Apache 1.3, Tomcat 4, Oracle 8 backend

 

Jan 2006

Brooklyn College (CUNY)

4.0.9

CAS, DLM, PAGS, Drag-and-Drop user preferences

Load-balanced HP DL380 servers with Httpd 2.4; SQL Server 2014; extensive use of WebProxy portlet v2

~15,000

Aug 2014

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

3.1_trunk

DLM, CAS w/LDAP + other cascading sources

Java 6, apache-tomcat-6.0.18, Sun eClass servers (dist., horizontal. scaled w/separate redundant CAS front end, WebSphere, Oracle DB & OID)

~25,000

Jan 22 2009

Carl Sandburg College

2.3.5

ALM,  Caching Kerberos 5 against Active Directory, Modified UBC_Webmail to allow it to read from the cache for the Username and Passord of users to log into an IMAP server that is using Kerberos 5 to authenticate.

Dell PowerEdge 2850 with RH EL 3AS, Apache 2.0.48 w/mod_jk, Tomcat 5.0.30, Sun j2sdk 1.4.2_05-fcs, PostgreSQL 7.3.10-2-RH; Everything loaded from jPackage RPMs

Unknown

Feb. 2006

Chinese University of Hong Kong

2.4.3

ALM,  uPortal against OpenLDAP

Dell PowerEdge 2650 with Fedora Core 3, Tomcat 5.0.28, Sun JDK 1.4.2_08, PostgreSQL 8.0.3; BigIP Load Balancer

~27,000 potential users

Unknown

Coastal Carolina University

2.4.3

ALM,  uPortal against OpenLDAP - Migrating to Active Directory,  SSO to Horde Imp webmail.

HP Dual Xeon, 1GB RAM, RHEL 3.0, Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.8, JVM 1.4.2_04, Postgres 7.3.9-RH, Apache 2.0

~7,500 users

Feb. 2006

Columbia Univerity

2.5.3

DLM,  WIND (modified version of CAS)

2 x Sun Fire V240 @ 2 x 1GHz UltraSPARC IIIi, 2 GB RAM, behind Cisco CSM load balancer; JVM: 1.5.0_11; app server: Tomcat 5.5.17; dbms: Sybase ASE 12.5.

~10,000 users

July 2007

CSU, Chico [Tour]

2.4.2

ALM, CAS

RHEL 3.0, 2 to 4 Dell 2850s depending on load, Cisco content switch, Sun JVM 1.4.2_06, tomcat 5.0.28 using AggressiveHeap, Oracle 10g with thin jdbc 9.2.0.3.0 driver.

 

Unknown

Cornell University [demo]

2.1.5

N/A, CUWebAuth

JVM: 1.4.2 64bit
Container: Tomcat 5.0.18
Host: Sun V880
Web Server: Apache 1.3.29
Database: Oracle

 

Unknown

De Montfort University

2.5.x

ALM, LDAP (eDirectory), PAGS

4 load balanced IBM HS20s 2.80GHz 2G RAM, JDK 1.5, Tomcat 5, Db PostgreSQL

~ 20,000

March 2008

Denison University

2.0.1 upgrading to 2.5.0 GA

SLM, moving to DLM,  uPortal against OpenLDAP

Old: Sun Enterprise 450, 4x400MHz CPUs, Solaris 8, Apache 1.3.27, Oracle 8i, Tomcat 4.1.27
New: HP DL360 G5, 4x3.4GHz CPUs, Red Hat Enterpise Linux 4.0, Apache 1.3.33, Postgres 8.0.3 (with Java driver 7.4), Tomcat 5.5.9

 

Unknown

Duke University DukePass

2.5.1

WebAuth

3xIBM x330 2 way 2.4gHz Xeon 2GB RAM Oracle 9i backend, Tomcat 5.0.28

 

Unknown

Edinburgh University Portal

2.1.3

SLM, CoSign

2 x Solaris - Sun OS8, with Apache 1.3.31 and two Tomcat 4.1.24LE running on each. Oracle 9i at the backend.

 

Unknown

Fort Lewis College

3.0.1

DLM, CAS

3 - HP DL 360 with dual core 2.66 procs, 4GB RAM  1 server each for CAS, uPortal, Oracle 10.2 running Red Hat 4.1
Apache 2.2.9, Tomcat 5.5.23

~1700 users
~4600 potential users

April 2009

Fullerton College

2.5.1

ALM, Home-grown

1x HP DL380 Xeon 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM, Win2003 with Apache 1.3.31/Tomcat 5.5.17, MS SQL Server 2K, JDK 1.5.0_07

~15000 users

June 2006

Göteborg University developed by LDC Lund University

4.0.7

LDAP, CAS, AD. Connected to LADOK (Swedens national database for student information, Grades, courses etc)

2 x servers (Virtual machines) running linux

apache load balancing

uPortal running tomcat 6.0.36 and java 1.7.0_17

~40000 users

peak 15000 logins/day

sep 2013

University of Geneva

Production 2.4.3.1

SLM, CAS

Linux Dell PowerEdge 2650
Linux version 2.6.12-15mdksmp

~15000 potential users

Unknown

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2.1.5

SLM, CAS

Sun Fire v240 2x1.28GHz 2 GB RAM, Solaris 9, PostgreSQL 7.3.6-RH, Tomcat 4.1.30, JDK 1.4.2_04, Apache 2.0.49 with mod_jk2

~10000 potential users

Unknown

Johns Hopkins University

3.0.0+

DLM; Netegrity SiteMinder for SSO; PAGS (Microsoft Active Directory, Sun LDAP, JDBC)

(6) HP DL380 Xeon 3.00 GHz 3.50 GB RAM (redundant across 2 data centers); W2k3 EE SP2; IIS 6.0; Tomcat 5.5.23; Jakarta ISAPI Redirector; Java 1.6.0_07; MS-SQL Server 2005

~56,000+ current users

September 11, 2008

UC Irvine administrative portal [demo]

2.6.1+

DLM,  Home-grown WebAuthSSO, OpenLDAP

Sun-Fire, JDK 1.5.0_10, Apache 2, Tomcat 5.5.26, application switch with 2 hosts, Sybase

~9000 registered staff members; 25000 potential

8/18/2008

Lamar University

Luminis III.3.3.64 (2.1?)

DLM; LDAP (Sun DS), AD; SSO to OWA, iMS (IMAP-SSL/SMTP-SSL/HTTP-, Sun Calendar Server

SunFire v240, Sun iPlanet Web server, Solaris 9, Oracle 9i, JDK 1.3.1_19, 8 GB RAM,

30,000+ accounts with an average of 70 concurrent users after one semester in production

Feb 11, 2007

Liverpool (University of Liverpool [tour]

2.4.2

ALM, LDAP
Starting to look at Shibboleth integration, Uses Javamail w/ IMAP to obtain details of e-mails. User must access webmail to send e-mail. Portal will SSO user into webmail (Horde IMP).

Sun V480 16 GB RAM, Local disks (no san). Tomcat 5 backend with Apache 2 front end. Oracle 9i

12,000+ potential users.
Currently averaging 15k non discrete logins per day, with ~600 concurrent users.

Feb  2006

Memorial University of Newfoundland [tour]

2.3+

ALM,  CAS

Sun Fire V880, Apache+Tomcat 5.0.27, Oracle

 

Unknown

Mendocino County Office of Education

 

 

 

 

 

Millikin University, infotech@millikin.edu

2.5.2, considering uPortal 3 on a next summer timeframe

ALM, CAS 3.1

Tomcat 5.5.25, JDK 1.5.0_14, Oracle 10.1. Running SuSE Linux 10.1 on an HP Proliant DL-360 with a dual-core Xeon 5150 (2.66 GHz,) 4GB of memory, 144GB of hard drive space

Have about 1,000 users using it so far, but just rolled it out a few weeks before the end of school, so we will be ramping it up at the beginning of this fall semester; currently all incoming students are using it and we anticipate more adoption by returning students.

June 2008

Nagoya University (Japan)

2.5.1

ALM, CAS 2, LDAP (Sun Java Directory)

SunFire V210 x 3, Nortel Networks Alteon 2424-SSL, Oracle 10g RAC (2 nodes)

~10,000

June 2007

Oakland University (Rochester, MI)

4.2.2

CAS 4, OpenLDAP (Red Hat), uMobile Native iOS and Android

4 VMs uPortal Nodes (4 Virtual CPUs, 24 GBs RAM per VM)
Red Hat Enterprise 6, Tomcat 8, OpenJDK 8

2 VMs uPortal PostgreSQL DB Nodes (4 Virtual CPUs, 16 GBs RAM per VM)
Red Hat Enterprise 6, PostgreSQL 9.5

~25,000

August 2016

Pearson Education, Peter Chiang pchiang@pearsoncmg.com

2.5.3+, Next release 2.6.1

DLM, custom local SSO integration

 

more than one million users

February 2008

Rutgers University @William G. Thompson, Jr.

2.5.2+

SLM, CAS 3.0, Modified UBC_Webmail: removed unused features and optimized performance & IMAP protocol traffic.  Connects to 7 Campus email clusters.

4 Sun Fire v240 2x1.280GHz 8 GB RAM (2 GB available to portal), Solaris 8, Oracle 10g, Tomcat 5.5.16 (4 VMs one on each box), JDK 1.5.0_11-b03, Apache 1.3.33 on each box,  Hardware load-balancing done via content switch & SSL accelerator used to optimize SSL processing

60+K registered, 70+K potential
(We will be adding about 10K users through out the fall semester)
93.5% students are portal users

July 2007

Sacramento State

3.2.1

DLM, CAS 3.4.7 + ClearPass, LDAP (AD), San Joaquin Delta College (Unicon) e-mail preview portlet, SSO to Microsoft's Outlook Web Access using ClearPass, Blackboard preview portlet w/ SSO, local messaging portlet

uPortal - 3 IBM xSeries 3650s Xeon Dual Dual-Core 5160 3.0GHz 4GB RAM
DB - 2 IBM xSeries 3650s, Xeon Dual Dual-Core 5160 3.0GHz 4GB RAM
CAS - IBM xSeries 3650, Xeon Dual Dual-Core 5160 3.0GHz 2GB RAM
Load balancer - F5 BIG-IP w/ SSL
OS - Red Hat Linux AS 5
DBMS - Oracle 10g

~40,000

July 2011

Saints Cyril and Methodius University (Macedonia) - Faculty of Natural Sciences - Institute of Informatics

2.6. latest from CVS

DLM, CAS 3.0 to Active Directory, UBC_Webmail, bilingual modifications for guest layout

uPortal and CAS - DELL PowerEdge 1800 (Xeon 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM) - Solaris 10, Apache Tomcat/5.5.20_,_ JVM 1.5.0_08-b03
MS SQL Server 2000 - DELL PowerEdge 1800 (2 * Xeon 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM) - Windows 2003

departmental use only - 1000 potential students and 50 staff

Nov 2006

Sheridan College (In Development) [Screen Shots]

2.4.2 (MyVT Quickstart)

ALM,  LDAP, Active Directory

 

2k, 2 yr junior college, 2 main campuses act as 2 separate colleges

Unknown

South Dakota State University

2.5.3 moving to 3.x

ALM (soon to be DLM), LDAP, Active Directory

 

All Active Students (~11,000)

April, 2006

Stockholm University [Screen Shots]

2.3.2

ALM, PubCookie

3 x dual-processor Dell PowerEdge XXXX servers, "balanced" by DNS round-robin, running Linux, OpenAFS for storage, Apache, Tomcat 5.0.25, MySQL

 

Unknown

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

2.5.1 (next week)

ALM,  LDAP (PAGS)

2x Dell Poweredge Dual Xeon as Portal Server, 1x Dalco Dual Xeon for the Database (psql), 1x Dalco Dual Xeon as QualityAssurance system. Running behind a Cisco Systems CS, load balanced (round-robin), running Debian Linux (Sarge), Apache, Tomcat 5.0.28, Postgresql 7.4.7, Java 1.5

4000 of a potential 15000

Unknown

Tacoma Community College

3.2

DLM, CAS against Active Directory, MS SQL 2005 Server

Windows 2008 R2 x64 IIS, mod_jk (ISAPI), Tomcat-6.0.26, 12GB JVM
Running under VMWare ESX on an HP BL45p G2 (8 cores)

~15,000 potential users
~300 concurrent users

July 2010

Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Luminis IV

Home grown eRaider Sign-in

3 servers, 4x dual proc, hyperthreaded, dual core 3.4GHz 16GB RAM, Oracle 10g backend w/RAC, jdk 1.5,Tomcat 5.5.17

~ 18,000 users

4/21/2008

Unicon Showcase Portal

3.0

DLM, AD, LDAP

2 CPU P4 HT, Red Hat Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Postgres

Demonstration site for uPortal & portlets

April 2009

Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain)

2.4.2

ALM, LDAP

SunFire 480 4Cpus 8Gb, Solaris 9, Tomcat, Oracle 10g

~8000

Unknown

University of British Columbia

2.5.3

DLM,  Campus-wide Login, UBC Webmail, Bedework  Public Events Calendar

2 Sun 4 CPU 16GB V440s, each running 4 instances, Alteon load balancers,  Oracle 9, JDK 1.5.0_10, Tomcat 5.5.17, Apache 2.0.58, Solaris

36,000-40,000 logins/day. 600-660 concurrent sessions. 11,000 unique users/day.

August  2007

University of California, Merced

3.0.2

DLM, CAS, RoundCube

Solaris 10 x86, 10Gb Ram, Sun JDK 1.6, Tomcat 6.0.18, Oracle 9i

~4,000

April 2009

University of Delaware

2.1 (working on upgrade)

SLM, CAS

Sun Fire 280R 2x750MHz 4 GB RAM, Apache, Resin, Oracle 9

 

Unknown