Still looking up I2 links.....
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DSI - Distributed Storage Infrastructure click for infrastructure map (updated 3/23/99)
A goal of Internet2 is to enable and demonstrate enhanced research, education and other services (e.g., health care, environmental monitoring) by taking advantage of "virtual proximity" created by an advanced communications infrastructure. The Distributed Storage Infrastructure (DSI) project led by Micah Beck and Terry Moore of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee and Bert Dempsey of the the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science is an important component in reaching this goal.
The DSI project aims to resolve accessibility issues associated with sharing and using Internet- based educational content. DSI accomplishes this by creating an infrastructure and defining a strategy for the support of server channels for academia. Such channels, called Internet Content Channels, enable replicated collections of files to be transparently delivered to end user communities at a chosen cost/performance point via a flexible, policy-based application of resources.
Although files served by this project are replicated over multiple domains and multiple servers, a single URL is utilized to access a given file, regardless of the actual domain of the server called to service the request. This is accomplished through the employment of a "resolver" server which performs the work of selecting the optimum server to service a URL request.
Internet Content Channels (under construction)IndianaVariations Music LibraryNorthwesternDigital Video PortalRed HatPan-Linux Source ChannelTexas A&MMedical and GIS ImagesUNC-CHWeb and Streaming Media ChannelsUTKNetlib Scientific Software RepositoryVanderbiltMedical Imaging ChannelViagenieNormos Internet Engineering Standards Repository
I2-DSI Project Events
•Future Events
•The Network Storage Symposium: NetStore '99, Oct 14-15, 1999
•Past Events
•I2-DSI Operations Meeting, 7 May, 1999 •I2-DSI Application Workshop, March 4-5, 1999 •Project Kickoff Meeting, 28 Oct, 1998
I2-DSI Project Documents
•"Towards An Efficient, Scalable Replication Mechanism for the I2-DSI Project" B. Dempsey and D. Weiss, UNC SILS, Technical Report TR-1999-01, April 1999. •I2-DSI Overview Presentation (.ppt) given by M. Beck and B. Dempsey during the I2-DSI BOF session at the 4th Intl. WWW Caching Workshop, March 31, 1999 •"Increasing the Availability of Internet2 Applications and Services" , M. Beck, B. Dempsey, G. Carpenter, G. Goldszmidtz, M. Swany and D. Weiss, submitted to Globecom'99/Global Internet, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 5-9, 1999 •"Portable Representation of Internet Content Channels in I2-DSI" , M. Beck, R. Chawla, B. Dempsey and T. Moore, 4th Intl. Web Caching Workshop, San Diego, March 31-April 2, 1999 •"The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure Project: An Architecture for Internet Content Channels", M. Beck and T. Moore, Computer Networking and ISDN Systems, 1998, 30(22-23): pp. 2141-2148.
I2-DSI Mailing Lists
•dsi-developers@internet2.edu All project developers. •dsi-video@internet2.edu Video technology advisors.
I2-DSI Developers & Collaborators
•Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Micah Beck (Project Director), Terry Moore, Martin Swany, Judi Talley (Operations Coordinator) •School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bert Dempsey, Paul Jones (MetaLab), Debra Weiss, Zhiwei Xiao
•Ellemtel, Leif Abrahamson, Christope Achouiantz, Patrik Johnsson •IBM, Ross Aiken, Geoffrey Carpenter, German Goldszmidtz, Judy Warren •International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Ralph Demuth, Joe Mambretti •StorageTek, Thai Nguyen •Sun Microsystems, Rajeev Chawla (now at Healtheon Corp.) •Viagenie (with CANARIE), Marc Blanchet, Florent Parent
I2-DSI Deployment Sites
•University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Innovative Computing Laboratory
Judi Talley, System Administrator •USGS EROS Data Center, South Dakota
Mike Rechtenbaugh, Sr. Network Engineer •North Carolina Supercomputing Center
MCNC, Research Triangle Park
Mark Johnson, Director of Internet Technologies, NCREN •University of Hawaii at Manoa
David Lassner, Director of Information Technology Services •Indiana University Univ. Info. Tech. Svcs. / Research and Academic Computing
David Vernon, Manager of Research and Technical Services
Related Middleware Projects
•Application-Level Scheduling •The Globus Project •Internet2 Digital Video Initiative •Internet Backplane Protocol •NetSolve •Narwhal •Network Weather Service •NLANR Web Caching Project •Rsync+ •Sonar & sonarDNS •SDSC Storage Resource Broker
I2-DSI Product Contributions
•IBM Web Cache Manager •Startburst Omnicast
I2-DSI Corporate Sponsors
•Cisco Systems•Starburst Communications•Ellemtel•StorageTek•IBM•Sun Microsystems•Novell
I2-DSI Additional Sponsors
•North Carolina Networking Initiative (NCNI) •Digital Library Federation (DLF)
NetStore '99: The End of End-to-End?
dsi.internet2.edu
Of particular interest are issues in the development of the Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure Project (I2-DSI) and applications supported by it.
Dr. Beck......
cs.utk.edu
Activities
Professor Beck has been an active researcher in a number of areas of computer systems, including distributed operating systems, the theory of distributed computation, compilers and parallel computation. His recent activities have focused on high performance networking and it applications, specifically the Internet2 project. He serves as chair of the Internet2 Network Storage working group.
Anyone know him willing to e-mail about switched FC fabrics?
The geographic locations and sponsors of I2 storage sites.....
.Storage is Networking to the Future....
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ils.unc.edu
For the initial testbed, IBM servers with ~1 TB of storage and 1 GB RAM are currently being installed at high-speed backbone access points in North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, South Dakota, and Hawaii. Collaborations with Canadian, European and Japanese networks are under discussion.
At UNC-CH, we are working on efficient data replication mechanisms for the I2-DSI core servers and support for potential I2-DSI content providers.
Doesn't sound like serverless storage would work well here?
WIll FC play well here? Any help from those in the biz? Thanks in advance. |
