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Institution and Contact | uPortal version | Details - Layout Manager, Authentication, Email, etc. | Server Setup | Usage | Info Last Updated |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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. |
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Cornell University [demo] | 2.1.5 | N/A, CUWebAuth | JVM: 1.4.2 64bit |
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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 | |
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 |
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2.5.1 | 3xIBM x330 2 way 2.4gHz Xeon 2GB RAM Oracle 9i backend, Tomcat 5.0.28 |
| Unknown | ||
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 | |
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 | ~1700 users | April 2009 | |
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 |
Production 2.4.3.1 | SLM, CAS | Linux Dell PowerEdge 2650 | ~15000 potential users | Unknown | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
2.4.2 | ALM, LDAP | Sun V480 16 GB RAM, Local disks (no san). Tomcat 5 backend with Apache 2 front end. Oracle 9i | 12,000+ potential users. | Feb 2006 | |
2.3+ | ALM, CAS | Sun Fire V880, Apache+Tomcat 5.0.27, Oracle |
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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 | |
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) | ~25,000 | August 2016 |
Pearson Education, Peter Chiang pchiang@pearsoncmg.com | 2.5.3+, Next release 2.6.1 | DLM, custom local SSO integration |
| February 2008 | |
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 | July 2007 | |
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 | ~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 | departmental use only - 1000 potential students and 50 staff | Nov 2006 |
2.4.2 (MyVT Quickstart) | ALM, LDAP, Active Directory |
| 2k, 2 yr junior college, 2 main campuses act as 2 separate colleges | Unknown | |
2.5.3 moving to 3.x | ALM (soon to be DLM), LDAP, Active Directory |
| All Active Students (~11,000) | April, 2006 | |
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 |
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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 | |
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 | ~15,000 potential 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 |
2.4.2 | ALM, LDAP | SunFire 480 4Cpus 8Gb, Solaris 9, Tomcat, Oracle 10g | ~8000 | Unknown | |
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 | |
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 | |
2.1 (working on upgrade) | SLM, CAS | Sun Fire 280R 2x750MHz 4 GB RAM, Apache, Resin, Oracle 9 |
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Prod 2.4.3.1 | SLM, CAS | Linux Dell PowerEdge 2650 | ~15000 potential users. | Unknown | |
Prod 2.5.3. | DLM, SUN JES Directory- plan to move to Sun Access Manager, Postgres database | Prod.: 3 Dell xeons (2 2850/4GB + 1 2950/12GB), RHEL AS release 3.0.x, Kernel 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp, Tomcat 5.5.23, mod_jk, load balanced by 2 Apaches 2.0.59(Dell 2850- with failover) plan to move to Cisco Content Switch, Sun JVM/JDK5.0, Postgres7.4.3, WEBmail(Zimbra - April 08); QA: 2 Dell 2850; Dev.: 1 Dell 2850 2GB, SVN/CVS, Scarab | ~30000 potential users | Sept 2007 | |
2.5.2 | DLM, OpenLDAP, no SSO | Sun T1000 8 core 1 GHz T1 processor, 8 GB RAM | ~20,000 users | July 2007 | |
University of Illinois | 3.1.1 | DLM, ActiveDirectory Groups, AD Kerberos Authentication, Banner Integration, Confluence Integration, Xythos Integration, Exchange Email and Calendar Integration |
| ~80,000 users | Jan 2010 |
2.4.2 | SLM, LDAP | Sun v240 w/ SSL accelerator, Tomcat, Oracle 9 | ~6,000 users | Unknown | |
2.1.3+ | SLM, Home Grown SSO | Server: 4CPU Sun UltraSPARC-II 450Mhz, 4 GB RAM | User Base: ~21,800 | Jul 2007 | |
4.0.10 | DLM, OpenLDAP | 8 x Dell PowerEdge running Tomcat on Debian Linux behind hardware load balancer using sticky sessions, 2 x Sun T2000 servers (High-Availability failover cluster) as database tier running MySQL | Userbase: 50k | May 2013 | |
2.1? (Luminis III.3) | Sun One Directory, external email, external pseudo-LDAP authentication | Sun V880 x 8cpu 32gb for Luminis 3.3; Luminis IV is going on a cluster of 3 x Dell 2950/III dual-quad cores 16 gb running Redhat AS v3.; Oracle 9i database | ~26k students | April 2008 | |
uPortal 3.0.1 | DLM, CAS2 against LDAP, no integrated email yet. Also, no customisation and no guest/gateway interface. Customisation to be released once we have an ID swapper feature for support. | Server: 2 x IBM eServer 325 (2xAMD64 CPU, 12GB), fibre channel to SAN (being expanded and upgraded early 2009) | Userbase: ~20k | July 2008 | |
uPortal 4.3.1 | DLM, LDAP,jitLDAP, CAS. | 2x virtual machines running RHEL. | Userbase 20k, 6k daily logins | Nov 2016 | |
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2.5.3 | ALM, uPortal, Sun One (webmail) | 2 x Sun Fire V890 (SunOS Solaris 10), behind a Cisco 11500 series Content Services Switch. Running Apache 2.0.52, Tomcat 5.5.20, Java 1.5.0_11 | ~35k students | July 2008 | |
2.5.1 | DLM, PubCookie, Synoptic view of central mail accounts and automatic login via PubCookie | SUN JDK 1.4.2_08/Apache 2.0.52/Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.28, Redhat Fedora linux on two (2) dual-processor 3.08GHz boxes, 2GB RAM; Database: Postgresql 7.4.8, Redhat Fedora linux on a single 2x3.08GHz box, 4Gb RAM; LoadBalancer: Cisco LocalDirector |
| April 2006 | |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4.x | AngularJS-portal alternative front end. DLM fully customizable; federated Shibboleth; multiple attribute sources; portlets: custom, bundled, WebProxy; ~180 portlet-definitions. | Nortel Networks Alteon load balancer | 34,000+ applicants, 55,000+ students, 55,000+ employees, 40,000+ system Logins: 18 million/year, 123,000/day (peak), 11,000/hour (peak), 2,000 concurrent users (peak) | 07/2016 |
3.1.0 | DLM, CAS 3.x against OpenLDAP, PAGS to OpenLDAP | HTTP traffic is run through a Server Iron load balancer then filtered through a revers proxy running apache 2.2.4 and modsec 1.9.4. Reverse proxies route requests via mod_proxy_ajp to two tomcat instances with these specifics: tomcat version: 6.0.20 | 50,000+ Users | 08/17/2009 | |
3.2.4 | DLM, CAS against AD, PAGS |
| ~20,000 users | 7/21/2011 | |
3.1 GA | Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 behind Cisco F5 load balancer, Oracle 11.1.0.7.0, Apache Tomcat Version 6.0.18, Java 1.6.0_12 "-server -Xms1280m -Xmx1280m -XX:NewSize=640m -XX:MaxNewSize=640m -XX:SurvivorRatio=5 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=90 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=12 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseTLAB " | 10000+ potential users | 05/18/2009 | ||
2.5 | ALM, radius against LDAP, We're investigating A-Select- or CAS authentication | Windows 2000/IIS 5.0 with dll-filter to Tomcat 5.0.28, MS SQL-server 2000, Java 1.4.2.06 |
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2.4.2 | Modified ALM, CAS | LB: Nortel Alteon | ~35 000 students + ~5 000 users | nov 2005 | |
2.5.1 | Modified ALM, CAS | Servers : 3 x Dell PE750 (PIV 2.8 Ghz, 2 GB Memory) | ~5000 users | may 2006 | |
2.5.1 | Modified ALM, CAS | Server: 2 * Sun V20z (AMD 250 2.4GHz, 4 GB RAM) | ~18000 Students + ~2500 Users | avril 2006 | |
2.4.2 | Modified ALM, CAS | Server: 2x Xeon 2,4 GHz, 4 GB memory) | ~12 000 users | nov 2005 | |
2.5.1 | Modified ALM, CAS, For some users: IMP/Horde (using CAS) | IBM Blade Center with: | 3k / 30k potential | 4 may 2006 | |
( merging of Universite Henri Poincare, Universite Nancy 2, Universite Paul Verlaine Metz and INPL) | 4.0.X | CAS, OpenLdap, Mysql | Full virtual system base on VMWare system :
| ~85,000 potential users 55,000-47,000 logins/day 2,500-3,300 concurrent sessions. 24,000 unique users/day. | October, 2013 |
2.6.1 | Modified ALM, CAS | 2x Xeon 2.8 GHz 4 GB memory | ~14000 | Apr 2008 | |
2.4 | ALM, CAS | (Nec 120Rh2 bipro Xeon 2.8 2Go Ram)*2, mod_jk 1, Oracle 9, Jdk 1.4.2 Tomcat 5.0.28 | 2,000/25,000 | Feb 2005 | |
2.6.1 | DLM, CAS | Server: 5 x Sun (Dual Core AMD 2.2 GHz 4 GB RAM) | ~28 000 users | may 2008 | |
2.4.3 | Modified ALM, CAS | Compaq Blade | ~20 000 users | nov 2005 | |
4.0.X | OpenLdap, Mysql, CAS | Full virtual system base on VMWare system :
| ~15 000 users | July 2013 | |
2.4.3 | Modified ALM, CAS | ENV: Apache 2.0, Java 1.4.2_08, Tomcat 5.0.28, Mysql 4.1 | ~3 000 users | nov 2005 | |
2.4.2 | ALM, CAS | Tomcat 5.5.9, JDK 1.5, Oracle 10g | ~15000 users | Aug 2006 | |
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2.5.3 | Modified ALM, uPortal against Netware LDAP - | (2) Xeon 3ghz 2G RAM | ~45000 users | April 2007 | |
2.3.5 | Netware LDAP | tomcat 4.1.31, | ~40000 users | Oct 2006 | |
2.3.5 | Open-LDAP | Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Blade CPU 3.00GHz, 4 Mo de RAM, PostgreSQL 7.4 | ~40000 users | Oct 2006 | |
2.3.5 | LDAP, Active Directory |
| ~25000 users | Oct 2006 | |
2.3.5 | Open-LDAP | (2) IBM X345, dual Xeon 2.8 GHZ, RAM 4GB, PostgreSQL 7.4 | ~20000 users | Oct 2006 | |
2.1 | LDAP |
| ~10000 users | Unknown | |
2.1 | LDAP Active Directory |
| ~10000 users | Unknown | |
3.2 | DLM, CAS against MS Active Directory, MS SQL Server | Windows 2008 R2 x64 IIS, mod_jk (ISAPI), Tomcat-6.0.26, 12GB JVM | ~15,000 potential users |