Technical Specifications 

System requirements

General

Project Magic is the newest generation of crash records analysis tools from Pd' Programming, Inc.

It follows the successful Intersection Magic crash records analysis software created in 1987, and used by thousands of engineers in city, county and state DOT offices across the country.
This new tool is server based. It runs as a service, connected to an SQL database. Users connect via a web browser on a local intranet or across the Internet.
Note: The system may also operate as an ISAPI add-on to Microsoft IIS. Comparisons have not been done, but this method should be able to handle more concurrent users.

Operating Systems

As a server-based product, Project Magic has different requirements than our desktop systems:

• MS Windows 2000 Professional; Server; Advanced; DataCenter;
• MS Windows XP Professional
• MS Windows Server 2003 Standard; Enterprise; DataCenter; Web Edition;

SQL Servers

This system has been developed and tested around the following systems, and all of them function properly:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - uses standard "ansi" joins
• MSDE - uses standard "ansi" joins
• Oracle 8i - uses "theta" joins
• Oracle 9i - uses standard "ansi" joins
• MS Access - generally just used for testing (not recommended for multi-user environment)

Hardware

• Intel-based PC with a Pentium II or higher processor (Pentium III 1.8 Ghz is recommended).
• 40 Megabytes available RAM required, 100 Megabytes or more recommended.
• 50 Megabytes of application hard disk space.
• 500 Megabytes available for processing. This will vary depending on number of concurrent users and reports in use.
• Program database size is determined by client database.

Networking

• Bandwidth - minimum recommended 128k.
• TCP/HTTP protocol to browsers
• Local drive or TCP/HTTP or TCP/FTP protocall for XML configuration files
• Single IP address - user defined
• Single port - user defined

Client software

• Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or newer
• Netscape v6 or newer
• SVG Viewer (currently Adobe or Corel)
• Single IP address - user defined
• Single port - user defined

Deliverables

Software provided for installation

• Product installer
• Project Magic executables (standalone and ISAPI provided)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader (for accessing electronic documention) Also available at Adobe's Acrobat web site
• Adobe SVG Viewer (required on client systems) Adobe's SVG web site
• Windows-based appliation utilities for configuration changes, SQL database access, etc. (not required for program use)
• Wands configuration files*

Items not provided

• Computer hardware
• Networking hardware or software
• Operating systems
• SQL server software (see above for options)