Welcome to the I2-DSI web site
ATTENTION - We will be moving our site to a new machine and we expect some minor disruptions. We appreciate your patience.

The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) is a replicated hosting service for internet content and services. Channels (services) are replicated across a distributed infrastructure with substantial compute and storage resources. User requests are directed to the closest (in network topology terms) server, keeping network traffic low and balanced.
Channels

Crafty
A growing repository of chess endgames.

Chinese-Music
The Internet Chinese Music Archive contains full recordings of various cultural compositions and historical speeches. Categories range from Ceremonial to Modern.

WebMuseum
An online collection of fine art.

Docsouth
Documenting the American South collections (UNC-CH AAL)

MetaLab Linux
A comprehensive Linux repository. (MetaLab)
Distributions
http://redhat.dsi.internet2.edu
http://slackware.dsi.internet2.edu
Open Video
Video content for the research community. (UNC-CH IDL)


Click here to see channel statistics.
Problems accessing these channels? Contact I2-DSI
OpenPCR

OpenPCR is a community effort to esablish an open Portable Channel Representation. PCR attempts to model internet services in a highly portable manner to simplify creation of service replicas and content distribution networks.

Lokomo Systems (www.lokomo.com) is building an implementation of the current PCR spec.

Downloads

The beta release of the I2-DSI Server Tools is here! Continue on to our downloads section and try them out.

Documents

Enabling Full Service Surrogates Using the Portable Channel Representation
Abrahamsson, L., Achouiantz, C., Beck, M., Johansson, P., Moore, T. 10th Intl. World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, May 1 - 5, 2001.
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Contact I2-DSI: i2dsi@cs.utk.edu Computer Science Department
  University of Tennessee