Research: Deliverables: D5.1 Training and Dissemination Activities

These materials are a mirror of the original TERENA held information.

The Second Web Cache Managers Workshop was organised by TERENA in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on 2-3 March 2000.

The Workshop was hosted by the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences MTA/SZTAKI. An earlier workshop was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 25-26 February 1999.

The workshops was targeted to web cache managers and administrators from the academic community as well as from commercial ISPs. Lectures were held about caching architectures and communication protocols, cache monitoring and analysis and more interesting topics. In addition, practical hands on about cache meshes building were successfully carried out. A final session summarised the most recent developments and research issues. The workshop payed special attention to the local developments in Central and Eastern European Countries.

The workshop was attended by 19 participants from eight different European countries.16 people returned the Evaluation form that was distributed on site. The report on the feedback of participants is available as a separate document.

Workshop agenda and online materials

Thursday 2nd March 2000

Time	Session	Title
09:30-11:00	S1.1	Workshop opening remarks by Ingrid Melve, Uninett,Norway Cost Benefit Analysis (Powerpoint presentation) by Andrei Sukhov, Samara State Aerospace University, Russia Cost Benefit Analysis (Powerpoint presentation) by Ton Verschuren, SURFnet,The Netherlands Web caching architecture and inter-cache communication (Postscript presentation) by Alex Russkov, NLANR, USA
11:00-11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00	S1.2	Practical: Installation of SQUID (Powerpoint presentation) tutored by Tamás Máray, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
13:00-14:00	LUNCH
14:00-15:30	S1.3	Log analysis and cache statistics (Powerpoint presentation) by Jens Vöckler, University of Hannover, Germany
15:30-16:00	COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:30	S1.4	Evaluation of caching products (Postscript presentation) by Alex Russkov, NLANR, USA

Friday 3rd March 2000

Time	Session	Title
09:00-10:30	S2.1	SQUID and MRTG: to SNMP or not SNMP? (HTML Lecture), (HTML Practical) by Matija Grabnar, ARNES, Slovenia
10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30	S2.2	Practical: Building cache meshes (Powerpoint presentation cache meshes), (Powerpoint presentation on proxy authentication) tutored by Bertold Kolics, MTA/SZTAKI, Hungary
12:30-13:30	LUNCH
13:30-15:00	S2.3	Transparent caching details (presentation not available) by Joe Farrell, Network Appliances, The Netherlands FTP mirror tracking (HTML presentation) by Alexei Novikov, ITEP, Russia
15:00-15:30	COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:00	S2.4	Development updates and standards (Powerpoint presentation) by Ingrid Melve, Uninett, Norway

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