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 (Croatia)

invite person without account Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)

http://cloudstor.uninett.no 200 MB

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

Geoscience • Collaboration is common • Cross-sector is typical • Data formats varied Wendy Mason | PhD Candidate, Computational Geodynamics | School of Geosciences and Underworld subduction model, in which the strain rate invariant is plotted on the slab particles (Wendy Mason, Louis Moresi and Peter Betts, Schools Mathematical Sciences | of Geosciences and Mathematical Sciences, Monash University) 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).

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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

target group all lecturers, students, researchers, staff

Open Source project BSD license ! W E N

known installs ● AARNet ● ARNES (soon) ● BELnet ● FCCN ● HEAnet ● SRCE ● SURFnet ● TERENA ● UNINETT

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!

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

IEEE publication! “Facilitating Research Collaboration in the Australian Geoscience Community Using CloudStor” http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2010.31

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!

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 focus on shipping for production services