About
n. Lobber (clobber, clabber) a form of curdled milk. In Swedish lobber is called filbunke which in English translates as "bowl of files".
v. Lobber (lobbering) To send data using the Lobber service.
Lobber is a BitTorrent service designed to be deployed with federated authentication in order to deliver a simple data distribution service. Lobber was designed and built with the needs of most research and education federations in mind.
A (arguably pre-)beta version of the service runs at http://beta.lobber.se
. Lobber is funded by SUNET and NORDUnet. Lobber is build with ease of use and integration in mind.
Lobber source code is released under the NORDUnet BSD license.
Participate
Discussion about Lobber is currently running on Swami Brainstorm.
Lobber consists of several components
lobber |
The web UI |
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lobber-client |
The java web start client |
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lobber-storagenode |
The reference lobber storage node |
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opentracker |
A modified opentracker |
Developer access is provided using git. Contact leifj at nordu.net or linus at nordu.net if you want to participate in the development of lobber.