Update on FileSender development (http://www.filesender.org/) delivered at the 9. TF-Storage meeting in Budapest, 4 Februari 2011

1. FileSender
http://www.filesender.org/
Update: Sept. 2010 – Jan. 2011
Jan Meijer TF-Storage 9
3 February 2011

2. value proposition
easy sharing arbitrarily large files
through a trusted intermediary

4. basic function
Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)

5. invite person without account
Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)

6. http://cloudstor.uninett.no
200 MB

7. 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

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

9. audio book library
stiff horse syndrome

10. 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

11. target group
all lecturers, students, researchers, staff

12. Open Source project
BSD license
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13. known installs
● AARNet
● ARNES (soon)
● BELnet
● FCCN
● HEAnet
● SRCE
● SURFnet
● TERENA
● UNINETT

14. 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!

15. 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

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

17. 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!

18. 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