On 05/07/2011, at 9:28 AM, Christoph Willing wrote: > I see that the multicast beacon at beacon.dast.nlanr.net is no longer > running - its unclear whether the domain even exists anymore. Also, > there is a notice at: > http://beacon2.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ > saying that the beacon service would be discontinued at 30th May. That > actually still seems to be running but no subscribers.
I see subscribers there now - there must have been an outage of some sort just as I was looking previously. However, the service discontinuation notice is still there. chris > Is there a new global beacon service that we can all use? > > BTW, in Asia Pacific area, we have also been using "dbeacon" which > some people prefer - apparently a lighter load on the machine > generating the html output display (in this case, run at AARNet). For > those interested, see: > http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/howto/dbeacon.html > > > Multicast beacons generally are really useful diagnostic tools and > everyone should subscribe to them - the question is where? Is any site > able to run a service like the ncsa or dast.nlanr.net used to? > > Do people want to change over to dbeacon? > > > chris > > > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 > QCIF Access Grid Manager > University of Queensland > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
