Currently the transfer takes 23 hours. The iGrid was very successful in raising awareness and status of the showcased research applications. Items for consideration include OC3mon coordination, Surveyor implementation at each exchange point, an inventory of what tools are used by each site and who is the contact, collaboration with global coordination, tuning and data archive. An interim and long term multicast architecture was developed. The plan is described in the 'Engineering' section of this document.
Expenditures are within budget.
Nothing to report. Bandwidth upgrade to 70Mbps. GOIN'99 conference to be held on the campus of University of Hawaii, 22-24 March, 1999. Additional work in establishing a reliable environment for performance testing.