Czech students rely on Itanium
Masaryk University located in Brno, Czech Republic, is one of the largest universities in central Europe with more than 40,000 students and 800 fields of study. During the last few years we’ve focused on creating a unique and integrated environment for our core “business process” — learning! Do you want to apply for admission, enroll in a course, pay for it, download study materials, or keep in contact with friends after graduation? All the application forms and data can be reached easily via the web at the Masaryk University Information System!
Although many applications in the system are typical for other enterprise OLTP solutions; such as creating orders, making payments or distributing multimedia contents, Masaryk University Information System also contains other tools developed in-house, like the algorithm we use to detect plagiarism. All of the applications run concurrently on an Itanium-based database server from SGI with Oracle Database and about 30 CPU sockets.
It was a real surprise for us being selected as an Itanium Innovation Award finalist this year because we usually compare our solution only with similar university systems. In addition, we welcome this opportunity to share our experience working with large-scaled database servers with other users and vendors at the Innovation Awards Celebration. See you there!
Miroslav Kripac, System Architect, Masaryk University