Folks, just thought you'd like to know that the Veterinary Sciences Faculty of the University Of Torino, Italy, is now running an open source PACS DICOM server based on OpenIndiana, administered by yours truly.
Pretty much, it revolves around a zone that contains a copy of the DCM4CHEE open source Java PACS, itself running on JBoss and a PostgreSQL 9.1 DB. Due to budget restrictions, my hardware choice was the HP Proliant Microserver, with 8GB RAM and 2x250GB mirrored root disks, along with 2x1TB mirrored 7200RPM SATA drives for the "tank" pool. All of these disks run a weekly scrub and are SMART monitored. For now we rsync backups of the data to a mirrored 2TB LaCie network disk (on the other side of the building is the best I could do), but I'm not too happy with that solution and would prefer something that is SMART capable. The OS and zone have been dumped to USB media and are manually backed up (no modifications are made to the system itself during normal operation, we really only care about the patient data). No hardware issues at all. It recognized everything fine. Deployment took two hours and then we were loading data (I had preinstalled everything in the zone at home and migrated it, greatly simplifying the process). It runs very very well and has been performing fine for the past six weeks. During the summer break we loaded the 640GBs of X Rays, CT and MRI scans that the hospital has acquired over the past eight years. We have had no problems so far and are very happy with it. This system also carries the Weasis DICOM viewer as one of the deployable packages, so it has a centralized update point for all the workstations that use that viewer in conjunction with the PACS. The staff is happy because they can finally find all of their diagnostic images in one place, instead of going through three or four systems by hand. Makes getting all of your thesis data together a breeze ;). I have been asked to give a small presentation on this system both for the Faculty and for some Vet congresses that are coming up. In the past I was very clear with the Profs about the fact that this service is made possible by the unique features of OpenIndiana, with zones, ZFS and its networking stack, I will be sure to stress this point during the presentation as well. I hope I get the chance to install several similar systems in the future. Thank you all, such a system would not exist without your continued effort. Bryan
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