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Jan Meijer TF-Storage 9 3 February 2011
FileSender http://www.filesender.org/ Update: Sept. 2010 Jan. 2011 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
FileSender http://www.filesender.org/ Update: Sept. 2010 Jan. 2011 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
FileSender http://www.filesender.org/ Update: Sept. 2010 Jan. 2011 Jan Meijer TF-Storage 9 3 February 2011 value proposition easy sharing arbitrarily large files through a trusted intermediary basic function Picture courtesy SRCE
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basic function
Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)
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invite person without account
Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)
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http://cloudstor.uninett.no
200 MB
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Health Sciences
- MRI files to Austria for
conversion
- 1 compressed file (12 study
participants = 1GB
- 300 study participants over 18
months
Marlene Fransen | Associate Professor Physiotherapy Faculty of Health Sciences | Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Group THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Geoscience
- Collaboration is common
- Cross-sector is typical
- Data formats varied
Wendy Mason | PhD Candidate, Computational Geodynamics | School of Geosciences and Mathematical Sciences | MONASH UNIVERSITY
*Quote citation: W. G. Mason, G. Aben, J. J. Meijer, C. Richter, C. P. Bonnington, L. Moresi & P. G. Betts, "Facilitating Research Collaboration in the Australian Geoscience Community using CloudStor", 2010 Sixth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 2010 (In Press).
Underworld subduction model, in which the strain rate invariant is plotted
- n the slab particles (Wendy Mason, Louis Moresi and Peter Betts, Schools
- f Geosciences and Mathematical Sciences, Monash University)
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audio book library stiff horse syndrome
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Why do this?
- > 2GB uploads
- know where your data is
- design for people with other things to do
- federated logon
- no ads
- no limitations
- least clicks possible
- fire&forget
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target group
all lecturers, students, researchers, staff
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Open Source project BSD license
N E W !
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known installs
- AARNet
- ARNES (soon)
- BELnet
- FCCN
- HEAnet
- SRCE
- SURFnet
- TERENA
- UNINETT
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History
07-2007: CSC presents ePoste Restante 09-2008: ePoste (.fi), Bitey (.ie), FileSender (.no), DocExchange (.ch)
04-2009: AARNet, HEAnet, Uninett start FileSender Project xx-2009: FileSender x released 10-2009: AARnet pilot starts 09-2010: SRCE production 11-2010: HEAnet production 17-01-2010: after 19 betas: RC1 (beta-19 rebrand)!
31-01-2011: RELEASE 1.0!
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Aug-Jan in detail
- 5 beta releases + one Release Candidate
- packaging process automated and streamlined
- source tree hammered in shape
- blåbærsyltetøy bug found and fixed (beta-17)
- download mechanism reworked
- countless other things fixed
- stable operations since Beta-17 (19 nov)
- http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/file_sender
/Release_Schedule_until_v1-0
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IEEE publication!
“Facilitating Research Collaboration in the Australian Geoscience Community Using CloudStor” http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2010.31
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after 2 years: what have we got?
- a solid release 1.0, ready for production
- solid understanding of problem space
- established a project!
- good documentation
- working cross-org collab infrastructure
- funding for 2011
- a very dedicated group of people
with a desire to make it happen!
- no reliance on one single NREN!
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FileSender 2.0
- Priority 1: >2GB !Flash, !Gears
- >2GB on Mac, Linux, mobile devices (movies!)
- improved admin interface
After FileSender 2.0: more features!
- integration with other apps:scientific workflows!
- addressbook/federated group
- timestamping
- ...and more