[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-based PACS DICOM server

[Richard Elling]

Thanks for the update, Bryan!  Well done!
  -- richard

On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Bryan N Iotti <ironsides.medvet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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