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Sony Project Poster
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Sony Project in the Press Technical Challenges
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The Challenge:
Sony’s eReader model allows for a single computer to
hold one eLibrary with no more than five associated
readers. The Penn State University Libraries current
Sony project involves 100 Readers. Our challenge was
to find a way to efficiently load 100 readers with a va-
riety of titles without the need for 20 individual com-
puters.
The Solution: Virtual Machines
• used VM Ware Workstation
• created nine virtual machines on each of two dedicat-
ed PCs
• total of 20 separate machines (including the physi-
cal machines themselves)
• individual IP address and an external internet connec-
tion
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• one eLibrary and five associated readers per machine
I like the fact that you can store a lot of books in a compact • mapped to space on the Libraries server to hold the
unit, and flip between them at your leisure. I also like that you “ Libraries.
can flip many, many, many pages before the battery runs down. • a single PSULIAS mailbox with 20 aliases -all for-
Unit is comfortable to hold, once you have gotten used to it. warded to a single email address accessible by a
Screen is comfortable to read, except in direct light, due to glare.
single login