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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 https://beta.lobber.se
. Lobber is funded by SUNET and NORDUnet. Lobber is built with ease of use and integration in mind.
Lobber source code is released under a BSD license.
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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.