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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="311173016-23022009">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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="311173016-23022009">Thanks in advance,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="311173016-23022009">Jim Lyons</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="311173016-23022009">Geological Survey of Canada</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="311173016-23022009">Ottawa</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><B>From:</B> antelope-bounces@brtt.net
[mailto:antelope-bounces@brtt.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mathias
Franke<BR><B>Sent:</B> February 19, 2009 14:36<BR><B>To:</B>
Majids@squ.edu.om<BR><B>Cc:</B> Yousf AL-Shijbi; Issa El-Hussain;
antelope@brtt.net; Ogie Kuraica; Salam Al-Hashmi; support; Mohamed El
Idrissi<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Antelope] FW: Linux antelope<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">Dear Majids:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">I hope this e-mail finds you in good health and spirit.
I guess you successfully finished your studies.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">With regards to your questions:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">Ad 1)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">Ad 2)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">We would recommend to use Apple Mac Pro (see discussion
above); we cannot make a recommendation for PC hardware.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">Ad 3)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">Antelope will run on the current Mac OS X Server v10.5.
For Linux: Antelope runs on SLED 10.2. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">If you need more information or want to discuss this
issue, do not hesitate to contact me.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">Kind regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left" dir="ltr"><FONT size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><SPAN class="216553618-19022009">Mathias</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">________________________________________</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Mathias Franke, Ph.D.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Manager - Open System
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<DIV align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Kinemetrics, Inc.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:41
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Ogie Kuraica; Mathias Franke<BR><B>Cc:</B>
support<BR><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: Linux antelope<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I had rather recommendations like this come from Kinemetrics.
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT size="3" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica">Majid Al-Saifi <<A href="mailto:majids@squ.edu.om">majids@squ.edu.om</A>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT size="3" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica">February 18, 2009 12:34:49
AM MST</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT size="3" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica"><<A href="mailto:antelope@brtt.net">antelope@brtt.net</A>>, <<A href="mailto:support@brtt.com">support@brtt.com</A>>, Nikolaus Horn <<A href="mailto:Nikolaus.Horn@zamg.ac.at">Nikolaus.Horn@zamg.ac.at</A>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000"><B>Cc: </B></FONT><FONT size="3" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica">Issa El-Hussain <<A href="mailto:elhussain@squ.edu.om">elhussain@squ.edu.om</A>>, Khalfan
Al-Tobi <<A href="mailto:kitobi@squ.edu.om">kitobi@squ.edu.om</A>>,
Salam Al-Hashmi <<A href="mailto:salam95@squ.edu.om">salam95@squ.edu.om</A>>, Yousf AL-Shijbi
<<A href="mailto:alshijbi@squ.edu.om">alshijbi@squ.edu.om</A>>, Mohamed
El Idrissi <<A href="mailto:midrissi@bluewin.ch">midrissi@bluewin.ch</A>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT size="3" face="Helvetica" style="FONT: 12px Helvetica"><B>Linux
antelope</B></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">Dear
all:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">We are
using antelope installed in sun (Solaris 10) and we plan to acquire Linux<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>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:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN><FONT size="3">1)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir="ltr"><FONT size="3">Do we need to get additional antelope license for the server only or
for each terminal?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN><FONT size="3">2)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir="ltr"><FONT size="3">And what is your advice to get reliable and cost wise solution in such
situation?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN><FONT size="3">3)</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir="ltr"><FONT size="3">Is there any special system requirements to get Linux based
antelope?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">Looking
forward to see your answers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">Kind
regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">Majid Al
Saifi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">Earthquake monitoring center</FONT></DIV>
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