Organizer: Micah Beck
The goal of the Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) is to provide academic end-users with high performance access to advanced applications. The I2-DSI architecture uses large storage servers deployed throughout the world's research networks to replicate content and services. Each end-user then achieves high performance by accessing a local replica. At a workshop held in early March at UNC Chapel Hill, application groups described how their projects can make use of distributed storage. This update will describe the current state of I2-DSI development and deployment, emerging international collaborations, and will review the applications presented at the recent workshop.