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Multilingual filers shatter storage-standard barriers
Competing file sharers from Adaptec, Celeros, Dell, and NetApp speak iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS
As does a hydra, storage and file-sharing technologies have many heads, and these days, they seem to be moving in every direction at once. iSCSI is finally in the limelight and the push toward virtualization is only heating up that market. Meanwhile, NFS and CIFS, the old warriors of file sharing, aren't going anywhere soon. Fortunately, there are ways to get to iSCSI now through single "multilingual" filer packages.
Network Appliance once was really the only player in this space. The company's products have been speaking NFS and CIFS for ages, while most other storage vendors were off concentrating on FC (Fibre Channel) SANs. Much has changed: Most companies' filer systems now eschew FC for iSCSI on the SAN side, while providing native NFS and CIFS support. For shops that have a little bit of this and a little bit (or a lot) of that, these devices might be just the ticket. Bear in mind, though, the expression "jack of all trades, master of none."
I looked at four products in this space, all priced far below conventional SAN solutions. Surprisingly, Network Appliance was one, with its sub-$10K StoreVaultS500. Adaptec's Snap division was also represented in the form of the new Snap Server 650. Dell pitched its PowerVault NX1950, and Celeros delivered its brand-new EzSANFiler XD.
Most of these systems are SATA-based, but some can support SAS and SATA side by side, delivering the speed of SAS where it's needed, and the low cost of SATA where speed isn't the issue. Truth be told, none of these solutions is a speed demon; look to true SAN hardware if you need lightning-quick storage.
I put all four systems through the same series of tests. I ran the NFS gauntlet using IOMeter from a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with two dual-core 3.0GHz Intel Xeon CPUs and 2GB of RAM running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. I conducted the iSCSI tests using IOMeter on a Newisys N2100 dual-CPU Opteron server running Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft's iSCSI initiator without any hardware acceleration, and I ran CIFS tests from the Dell 2950 using the smbtorture suite of tests from the Samba project.
The numbers were generally all over the place. It was clear that the default configurations of these devices need to be Click for larger view. tweaked to specific workloads to get the best performance. That said, all four did well across all the tests, with the Snap 650 showing the best overall performance and the StoreVault S500 claiming the most consistent performer award.
Unlike SANs, however, you need more from these devices than performance; they need to integrate into existing environments in ways that SANs simply don't. They tie into Active Directory, they need to bind to NIS (network information service) domains, and they need to provide at least a modicum of iSCSI features such as LUN (logical unit number) masking and CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) authentication. They also need to be simple to install and manage, since it's almost a given that they will be deployed in environments without dedicated storage administrators. In short, they need to do a whole lot for very little.
Adaptec Snap Server 650
Ever since Adaptec bought Snap, it's been anyone's guess whether the company would continue with the product line. The Snap 18000, introduced years ago, was one of the first low-end competitors to Network Appliance, and its Linux-based solution has fared well over the years, but there's been very little rustle from the company until recently. The Snap Server 650 in this test bears little physical resemblance to the 18000, but the management interface is GuardianOS, same as it ever was.
The Snap 650 is a 1U appliance with four SAS drives and an up-front LCD status panel. Since SAS capacities are low, and the prices high, SATA shelves can be tacked onto the Snap 650 to provide more storage. They're attached using external SAS/SATA connections, and storage volumes can be spanned across the two arrays. In practice, this isn't a good idea because like disks should be grouped together. This does offer the benefit of tiered storage within a single unit, however, since high-demand volumes can be placed on the SAS array, and lower-priority volumes on the SATA array, all within one box.
I tested the Snap 650 on both the SAS and SATA arrays for all tests to determine the performance difference between them, and it would definitely behoove an admin to place SQL databases or a Microsoft Exchange datastore on the SAS side of things, while normal file sharing lives on the SATA end. Although the internal drives in the 650 are SAS, it's possible to add disk shelves with 10K and 15K SAS drives, and 7200 rpm SATA drives.
Integrating the Snap 650 into the network was straightforward, using basic Active Directory and NIS bindings. Shares are created on any volume and can be accessed from both CIFS and NFS, as well as FTP, HTTP, and AFP (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) protocols. This separates the Snap650 from the others, as they may offer a few extra protocols, but not all of them.
ACLs can be managed from the UI or from Windows and POSIX systems, though NFS permissions will be Greek to anyone who's never used a standard NFS server before. There's no sugar-coating -- it's basically like editing /etc/exports. To NFS admins, this is actually a benefit, but to others, it might be a bit of a pain.
Network connectivity is provided by a pair of gigabit NICs that can operate independently or bonded, although the management of a load-balanced configuration can be a bit wonky, with seemingly benign spurious errors during reconfiguration. This didn't cause any problems, but was certainly odd.
On the performance side, the Snap 650 really cooks for a filer in this price range. Armed with two dual-core Opteron CPUs and 2GB of RAM, it's ready for just about any workload. It consistently posted the highest scores in the performance tests, and generally ran circles around the other systems.
GuardianOS has had its problems, and is in need of a refresh, but its basis on Linux and the XFS file system is fairly solid. The Snap 18000 I've had in the lab for a while recently had a hiccup after more than a year of faithful service, and all appeared to be lost. It took some time and some support from Adaptec, but the array was repaired, the file system reconstituted, and all the data eventually recovered.
The Snap Server 650 offers significant expansion, quick setup, and a lot of horsepower for the price, and is hopefully a sign that Adaptec is finally getting serious about its Snap filer line.
Celeros EzSANFiler XD
Celeros isn't exactly a big name in the storage arena, but the company's products continue to impress me. Based on an off-the-shelf SuperMicro chassis, the EzSANFiler XD provides iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS services as well as FTP, secure FTP, and HTTP sharing with a fresh Web-based UI and commodity parts -- there's definitely a benefit to being able to source your own replacement RAID controller when push comes to shove.
Speaking of RAID controllers, the EzSANFiler XD ships with an Adaptec 4805-SAS controller, which can control both SAS and SATA drives in the same chassis. My test unit came with six 137GB SAS drives, and four 750GB SATA drives. They can be seated anywhere in the chassis, and even combined into RAID arrays, though that would hardly be a good use of resources. In this fashion, the EzSANFiler XD can provide limited tiered storage much like the Snap Server 650, but within the same box. The Adaptec controller driving the disks is relatively autonomous, however, with all disk-level configuration performed within the cards' BIOS, which isn't accessible from the management interface.
One differentiator is that the EzSANFiler XD boots from a flash drive. Unlike the other solutions that all host their operating system on one or more of the disks in their arrays, Celeros has placed the entire OS on a flash adapter that plugs directly into an IDE header on the mainboard. This means that no matter what happens to any hard drive, the OS will remain stable. On the other hand, I found that the internal multilane connection to the disk backplane didn't have retention clips, which made the connection alarmingly loose. It's a small bone to pick, but a necessary one.
The EzSANFiler XD didn't perform well initially, especially in write and random testing, but this was largely attributable to the disabled write cache on the RAID controller. Enabling the write cache produced far better results. Production versions of the EzSANFiler XD will ship with a battery-backed RAID controller to mitigate this issue. The system has a single dual-core Intel Xeon 5110 running at 1.6GHz per core and 4GB of RAM, which seems to be sufficient to handle normal operations.
As far as the network goes, the EzSANFiler XD is simply rife with interfaces. Six gigabit NICs were in my test unit, and they could be run independently or bonded with EtherChannel to create multigigabit pipes. Network I/O isn't a problem on this system.
On the management side, the Celeros management application is Web-based and played quite nicely with every Web browser I tried. It's written in PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) and presents a clean interface for managing the appliance. I did have some initial problems with Active Directory integration, but they were resolved after some digging. The unit I received was one of the first, since this is a brand-new product from Celeros. There were some rough edges to be sure, but the overall direction of the product is solid, and the price is very attractive.
Some of the issues I encountered with the EZSANFiler XD are already being addressed by Celeros, as the company plans on releasing a code update quite soon that will add 2Gb and 4Gb Fibre Channel support, as well as integrating hardware RAID management into the Web GUI.
The performance to cost ratio on this system is quite high, and there's considerable comfort in knowing that the OS running your storage is running on solid-state disk.
Dell PowerVault NX1950
Dell's entry into this fray is a conglomeration of sorts. If you marry a Dell PowerEdge 1950 to an MD3000 SAS disk array and run Windows Unified Data Storage Server on it, you've just built an NX1950. Of course, because the NX1950 is sold as a distinct Dell product, it's specifically supported in this configuration from Dell, and Dell preinstalls a pile of tools to assist in initial configuration and overall management.
It's simple to set up, though the defaults are rather odd. Given that the NX1950 in the lab had the smallest raw storage (15 36GB SAS drives) of any of the four systems, making the default configuration four logical RAID5 drives was a bad idea from both an allocation and performance perspective. Fortunately, it's easy to fix, and shortly after power-up, all 15 drives were built into a RAID5 array with one hot spare. These drives live on the MD3000 shelf that connects to the server via a single external SAS connection. There's no redundancy there, but the disk shelf as well as the server were outfitted with redundant power supplies.
The next step was configuration. The external shelf appears to the Windows server as a normal volume (or volumes), and mounts on a drive letter, as you might expect. Creating and managing Windows shares is exactly as it would be on a normal Windows server, but creating and managing iSCSI targets is a different matter. Using the Windows storage management plug-in for MMC (Microsoft Management Console), it's easy to create targets and assign virtual disks to those targets. LUN masking is relatively straightforward, with the basic Windows tabular approach to setting properties to specific objects. Creating virtual disks for iSCSI LUNs is the work of a few mouse clicks, and that's about the size of it. It really is simple. The NFS side, however, isn't.
Microsoft released SFU 3.5 (Services for UNIX) a while back, and with it expanded support for NIS (Network Information Server) as both a client and a server. In addition to NIS, NFS support was also bolstered, at least as well as it could be since the underlying file system isn't POSIX compliant. These two services are generally bound together to provide authentication and ACLs (access control lists) on file systems, and thus, are absolutely necessary to a successful Windows Storage Server deployment.
Unfortunately, there's much to be desired in both the NIS and NFS functions. Integrating with an existing NIS server isn't terribly difficult, but unless it's a very simple infrastructure, you're looking at permanently modifying the Active Directory schema to incorporate hooks to permit for NFS authentication, and possibly diving into the existing NIS maps to reference accounts from NIS to AD. The simplest way to get it working is just to copy over the password and group files from a UNIX-based system, but that doesn't scale at all, and is only really usable in a small deployment. Couple these headaches with the relatively poor NFS performance, and it's best said that the NFS support in Windows Storage Server is there if you need it, but hope that you don't.
Otherwise, the NX1950 is a solid performer with the benefit of being a Windows-based system to provide a low learning curve. As a side test, I installed CentOS 4.3 on the NX1950 and configured Samba, NFS, and a few iSCSI targets. This isn't a supported configuration from Dell, so the performance numbers aren't included, but let's just say that it was faster than Windows.
All in all, for a wholly Windows-centric shop looking to provide CIFS and iSCSI services quickly, it's a good deal. You can even leverage the Windows-based OS to run printers. Just pray that you don't get spyware or a virus on your filer.
Network Appliance StoreVault S500
This product actually came as a shock to me. The heart and soul of Network Appliance is the company's Data OnTap OS platform, which runs on every storage product NetApp sells. A $250,000 SAN solution runs it, and so does the $8,000 StoreVault S500. Of course, the S500 isn't nearly in the same class at its big brothers, but it does offer the same basic functionality.
The StoreVault S500 ships with StoreVault Manager, NetApp's Windows-based management tool. With a brand-new unconfigured S500 running on the same subnet as a Windows workstation, StoreVault Manager will find it with Universal Plug and Play and walk the user through the basic configuration, including networking setup, Windows and NIS parameters, and storage configuration.
From there, it's a matter of aligning your mind to the application, configuring shares and iSCSI LUNs, and overall storage parameters. For those that haven't used a NetApp product before, this app is very useful. For those that have NetApp experience, it's actually rather annoying. Fortunately, FilerView, the Web-based management tool native to Data OnTap is also available, although the two cannot coexist.
My evaluation unit was a 3U rack-mount appliance with twelve 500GB SATA drives. It's nothing fancy from an aesthetic point of view, with a very rudimentary LED display and a few status lights. Raw capacity is about 6TB, but usable capacity falls well short of that. Eliminating two drives in a dual-parity RAID configuration and removing another for a hot spare, coupled with a reasonable snapshot reserve, actual disk size of about 415GB, and file system overhead bring the total available storage to just under 4TB, though that's a well-protected 4TB.
Integrating the S500 into a Windows network is very simple, and setting ACLs on shares and directories in those shares is also simple. Snapshots are integrated with Windows' own Shadow Copy Service, and ACL management can be done from any Windows system with appropriate rights. The NFS side is also easy, with NIS bindings and POSIX-compliant ACLs. iSCSI LUNs can be created at a whim and masking is handled through a relatively straightforward initiator grouping mechanism. NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) backups are supported, and replication between S500s is also built in.
Given its roots, the S500 has a head start on most other products, and it shows in the robust nature of the solution. Where the S500 falters is in performance. There are two gigabit NICs, but they cannot be bonded together, and although it's certainly capable of pushing lots of bits, it's hamstrung by a lack of resources. Whereas most of the other vendors are using dual CPUs, or at least a single dual-core CPU and a pile of RAM, the S500 runs with a relatively anemic 3GHz Intel Celeron CPU and 1GB of RAM.
The performance tests showed the S500 running in the low end of the pack, but handling different file sizes relatively equally. This is fine for many implementations, but in a high-demand scenario, it's overmatched. During backups, it's possible to consume most or all of the system resources, so 24/7 operations may need to look elsewhere.
That said, for the cost and the stability of the solution, it's a definite winner in the right environment.
Come Together
These products -- and their prices -- highlight a perfect storm of technological innovation. Fast processors, lots of RAM, and big hard drives are cheap these days. One top of that, a solid software base can turn anything into a fast filer. For smaller shops that need to bring in big storage in a hurry, any of these solutions will be right at home. They all have the caveats that come with lower-cost storage, but then again, they wouldn't be low cost if they didn't. Notably, OpenNAS, an open-source filer OS, can do most of what any of these products can do for just the cost of the hardware.
One perfectly reasonable implementation of any of these devices is in parallel. It's difficult for smaller shops to maintain strict tape backup schemes from both a personnel and cost perspective, but given the cost of these devices, buying a few simply to maintain a nearline backup is a terrific idea. They're cheap -- get two, and reduce backup/restore concerns. As front-line filers, they will do fine up to a point, and then it's time to break into the piggy bank for some higher-end storage, which definitely comes with a higher-end price.
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InfoWorld Scorecard | Scalability (20.0%) |
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Adaptec Snap Server 650 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | |
Celeros EzSANFiler XD | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | |
Dell PowerVault NX1950 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 8.0 | |
Network Appliance StoreVault S500 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 |
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John Frusciante solo stuff Posted by cornstarch on 7/1 at 7:05 pm Anyone listen to any of it? I was just shown the songs "Murderers" and I think it's fantastic, but I haven't really given much else a listen besides the album "To Record Only Water for Ten Days" which has been interesting so far. To Record Only Water for Ten Days Reply Back to Top |
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Posted by cigsmcgee on 7/1 at 7:24 pm to cornstarch second walk i like some of his stuff. Reply Back to Top |
Posted by Peazey on 7/1 at 7:29 pm to cornstarch I think Shadows Collide with People is better. It's all damn depressing stuff though. I can't just pop it in and listen unless I'm in a very particular type of mood. ETA: Should have a couple of posts down. This post was edited on 7/1 at 7:31 pm Reply Back to Top |
Yea a lot of it is really weird too. You can definitely tell it was at the height of his heroin use. Reply Back to Top |
If you like To Record Only Water, check out Letur Lefr and PBX. Both are very electronic. I like all of his stuff. My favorite is probably Niandre Lades, though that is a very niche album. I also am a big fan of Curtains and Shadows Collide. Reply Back to Top |
The Empyrean is the most complete album, in my opinion. I consider it his masterpiece. Reply Back to Top |
The guitar piece his did as a tribute a few months back was pretty special, too: Wayne Reply Back to Top |
Empyrean drags a little to me. It has some great songs but I can't listen to it and enjoy it as easily as his other work. That being said, "Unreachable" is one of my favorite songs of his. Reply Back to Top |
quote: See, to me, that's a big part of the cohesion. I'm pretty sure he was trying to make a good old rock album where you sit in your living room, dim the lights, and let it engulf you. This thread actually made me switch to The Empyrean. Unreachable is playing now. Reply Back to Top |
Yeah I get that. I just really have to be in the mood to listen to it all the way through. Your description is almost 100% the intention of how it should be listened to, according to the man himself. Reply Back to Top |
Posted by Ace Midnight on 7/2 at 10:17 am to cornstarch As I don't really like RHCP without him, I've always assumed it was him that I liked the most. His solo stuff is so varied and different, but also so stream of consciousness. He could have been a monster head of a improvisational jam band, even a jazz fusion one. Some of it I like, but a lot of it is just meh. Reply Back to Top |
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Posted by linduh311 on 7/6 at 11:46 pm to cornstarch i like several songs from shadows collide with people. song to sing when i'm lonely and omission are great but i agree with you guys that a lot of his shite is way out there and pretty weird def an acquired taste for most. he was always my fav RHCP member Reply Back to Top |
Out there? Listen to Will to Death and Inside of Emptiness. These are great rock records. Also try DC EP. He has a little bit of everything in his catalog. Also, breaking news, he will be releasing a new 3 song EP soon: LINK quote: Tracklisting: Same Breathiac Shelf 04 / Untitled / Bonus track 1 Reply Back to Top Refresh |
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When People See a Situation that Cries Out for Action, Do They Step in, Back Away or Just Walk on by?
When you think no one is watching… what would you do? Using hidden cameras, "What Would You Do?" establishes everyday scenarios and then captures people's reactions. Whether people are compelled to act or mind their own business, John Quiñones reports on their split-second and often surprising decision-making process. "What Would You Do?" airs FRIDAY, JUNE 14 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.
Friday, June 14 scenarios Include:
- Sedating the Baby: Recently a pre-school teacher was accused of putting sedatives in the sippy cups of toddlers. So what would happen when a nanny, out to lunch with a toddler-aged child who is running around and misbehaving, threatens to, and then gives the child what looks like medicine to calm him down? Will anyone approach the nanny?
- Middle Eastern Discrimination: A young man wearing an American flag t-shirt enters a deli and verbally harasses and threatens a Middle Eastern clerk because of his ethnic background. How will other patrons react?
- Velvet Rope: Two women are in line at a nightclub, excited about their night out. But when they finally make it to the front of the line, they run into a bouncer who has a very strict and completely offensive admission policy. The bouncer berates them about what they're wearing, and how they are not thin, or tall enough for "model night". Will anyone else on line stand up for the women? (OAD 5/4/12)
- Proposition: An attractive, conservatively dressed young woman reveals to a bartender that she is nearly broke, with no job prospects and no one to turn to for help. So what will happen when a slick businessman sitting nearby leans over and says he knows how she can make some fast cash as a "special companion" for his out of town clients? Will anyone at the bar step in?
- Route 66 Preview: Next Friday, June 21, "What Would You Do?" takes to the road, travelling Route 66 through the heart of the country. John Quiñones previews the hour with a scenario taken straight from the headlines: Gay Boy Scouts. Just last month, the long held ban on gay scouts was reversed. What will others do when they see two boy scouts picking on another, threatening to "out" him to his family and leaders? Will they side with the gay scout or his non-accepting friends?
"What Would You Do?" has won awards from the Chicago International Television Festival and the Avon Foundation's 2006 Voice of Change award for exposing "injustice and wrongdoing against women and bringing the message of domestic violence to the mainstream."
David Sloan is senior executive producer and Danielle Rossen is executive producer of "What Would You Do?"


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Night Zookeeper & World Creative Writing Month
Creative English writing resource Night Zookeeper have launched a free global writing initiative on their website called World Creative Writing Month.
The aim of the competition is to inspire children to write more stories at home. Pupils are challenged to invent their own magical animals and then are given a series of creative writing prompts about them. The stories they write about their animals can appear within an online newspaper called the Night News and also can be assessed against National Curriculum or Common Core objects in a Teacher admin site.
Schools from every continent have signed up, no doubt hoping to win some fabulous prizes. To register to take part, simply visit the World Creative Writing Month competition page of the Night Zookeeper website.
Here is an overview of some of the exciting activities in store.
As a teacher, you will be able to measure the impact on your pupils writing here.
You can learn how other schools have taken to Night Zookeeper in their case studies section.
CESI Conference 2015: Beyond the Horizon – Technology in Education, Galway, Ireland
We are delighted to have made the trip across the water to Galway, in Ireland, for Beyond the Horizon – Technology in Education, The CESI Conference 2015, at the beautiful Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) campus. Well done, and thank you, one and all, for being up for the craic.
It was great to also go to the Teachmeet, last night, on the eve of the Conference today. It has become CESI's custom, since 2009, to host a Teachmeet on the eve of the annual conference. This year, they were delighted to announce that they were hosting a special event:
"We have invited our friends and colleagues from the East to come West and join us! Teachmeet East has been running successfully for the past few years in Leinster, so we were thrilled they agreed to host a special Teachmeet "East meets West" with us. This was one NOT to miss!"
Thanks to Mags Amond, for inviting us to CESIcon, and for sharing these thoughts:
The Computers in Education Society of Ireland, known as CESI to its members and friends, is an open community of educators and innovators who are committed to using and developing technology to support teaching and learning. Our tribe includes educators from all levels and sectors, formal and informal, both "inside and outside the box", so to speak!
Our membership is mainly drawn from Ireland, but we now have many many valued global friends.
The main event of the CESI year is the annual weekend Conference, informally dubbed #cesicon, when the family gathers to renew enthusiasm, share new ideas, and catch up with friends old and new.
We are Ireland's longest established Ed Tech group, having recently celebrated – with great pride – our 40th Birthday! Our celebrations have taken us back to Galway, the home of our birth, for our most recent conferences.
We are in constant contact with each other online, sharing practice and solving problems, via the CESI mailing list, which is the online 'staffroom' of our Teacher Professional Network. We can be found debating (tweebating?) at the #edchatie timeline on Monday evenings at 20.30 GMT.
Several times a year now, we gather somewhere in the country for a TeachMeet, an idea we 'borrowed' from across the water in 2009. The cross pollination of ideas and information that occurs in this pleasant mixture of professional and social atmosphere has proven very popular with the membership.
At this CESI TM, and #cesicon, in Galway, we are delighted to have Keynotes from Tim & Sarah of this parish, and also our own John Davitt.
Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts can be a superb alternative to Skype, enabling disparate groups to communicate, and collaborate, together.
Record your hangout to enable replay, or non time dependent interaction.
If you were to enable editing of a document on Google Drive, at the same time as talking via a Hangout, you've started some real interaction, whether your collaborators are near or far.
Google Drive
Many users of web tools, in schools, are possibly already familiar with Google Drive, which enables collaborative editing, through Google Docs, alongside anybody else who has a free Google account. We must make sure we don't let it slip, and work, collaboratively, on interactive resources. "All your files, ready where you are". You might also try GoogleDrive Mobile, a place to create, share, collaborate and keep your stuff, accessible on all your devices. Work together, while you're on the go. (Works on Android and iOS)
Education Innovation Conference & Exhibition 2015, Manchester
A keynote for The Education Innovation Conference and Exhibition (EICE) at Manchester Central.
Now in its third year, EICE provides visitors with the chance to get hands-on with the latest learning technologies & receive specialist advice on boosting achievement in their schools, colleges & universities.
The Education Innovation Conference and Exhibition is an annual event designed to help education professionals integrate innovation and technology into learning. EICE combines an exhibition with a conference that includes free seminars and workshops, featuring contributions from a fantastic range of education experts.
Today, we went wild and wooly, creating our own composite creatures, using some simple, and all pervasive tools: Padlet, Switch Zoo – site and app, Endless Ocean, Wild Earth, ZooKazam & Zoo Atlanta, Simple English Wikipedia, Spicynodes, Tagxedo, Snappy Words, ThingLink, ZooBurst, Nature Sound Map, GoMixIt, Ambient Mixer, Audacity, Garageband, RunKeeper, Google Hangouts and Skype.
EICE is designed to educate and inspire teaching professionals on how technology and innovation can enhance the learning experience. We provide you with the chance to get hands-on with the latest learning technologies and receive expert advice on how to boost achievement in schools, colleges and universities.
New features, at EICE, for 2015, included:
· the Tablet Village – powered by The Tablet Academy – with advice and inspiration on getting the most out of teaching with tablets
· the SEN Hub, which featured some of the latest products and solutions for those with special educational needs
· An e-safety clinic, offering advice on how schools, colleges and universities deal with the safety of their students
For updates and maybe to register, for free, for tomorrow's second day, visit http://www.educationinnovation.co.uk/ and you could also follow @EICEmanchester on Twitter
Thank you to Laura Scott, Conference Manager at the education innovation conference & exhibition, for organising our involvement in this great event.
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Whatever It Takes 3rd Annual Conference, Leicester
Whatever It Takes, the Leicester city-wide reading initiative, hosted its 3rd annual conference, at the Leicester City Football Ground, as part of their year focussing on the of using ICT to inspire learning & creativity, with an emphasis & reading & writing. Their header is a plane, going for it. Today, we got them to take off & fly too!
Thank you to Ellen Lee – Project Manager, Whatever it Takes, for coordinating the last three days. Whatever it Takes (WiT) is the Leicester city-wide reading initiative dedicated to ensuring every child in Leicester is reading. It was established since 2009 and was formed in partnership between Leicester City Schools, Leicester City Council and is Managed by the School Development Support Agency.
Thanks to Ellie for sharing these thoughts: The conference was lead by Tim Rylands and Sarah Neild and supported by a number of providers, exhibiting a range of products available to schools to support pupils learning by the use of ICT. The day included a presentation around 'Raising the levels of creativity of children of all abilities', a hands on session exploring the virtual worlds of Myst III and practical tasks delegates can undertake back at schools.
The follow up day, with Feedback and Reflective Session, 4th June, has been designed to advance schools learning by feedback and reflective sessions along with peer review. Tim and Sarah will keep in touch with delegates online, between events.
Given the ever changing and developing world of technology in education, Whatever it Takes (WiT) provides schools the opportunity to learn more about some of the effective and creative ways in which ICT can support a child's learning and development, with a specific focus on literacy.
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Whatever It Takes Training, Leicester ~ Day 2, Caldecote Community Primary School
A second day at Caldecote Community Primary School, leading another two sessions, with children, and visiting staff, as part of the Whatever It Takes, training we are doing this week, in Leicester. Joining us today were colleagues from Folville Junior School, Christ the King Catholic Primary, Granby Primary, Glebelands Primary, Whitehall Primary, Rolleston Primary, Shaftebury Junior School, Forest Lodge Primary, Overdale Infant School, King Richard III Infant School, Humberstone Infant School, Uplands Infant School, Willowbrook Primary, Mayflower Primary, Catherine Infant School, Leicester City Primary PRU, Belgrave St Peter's Primary and Inglehurst Infant School.
Dialogic talk and roleplay feeds directly into focussed and supportive writing tasks whereby pupils can, motivated by their excitement, experiment with formal writing techniques of description, even challenging themselves to go further and make use of simile and metaphor to enrich their writing. We are sure not to constrain this imaginative energy by having pupils overly worry about spelling and other 'rules'. This is not to say that the importance of such conventions is ignored but rather that pupils are reassured that the objective of the exercise is to record their ideas and experiment with the description so that their expressive skill is not retarded by over-formality.
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Whatever It Takes Training, Leicester ~ Day 1, Caldecote Community Primary School
Our first, of three days this week, returning to Leicester, for sessions with those joining the Whatever It Takes crew on a tech trek. Today we were at Caldecote Community Primary School, leading two sessions, exploring the world of words, and beyond. Well done all.
Started the day with 40+ Y5 and Y6 pupils, their teachers and visiting colleagues from Mellor Primary, Thurnby Lodge Primary, Catherine Junior School, Medway Community Primary, Highfields Primary and Northfield House Primary, then an afternoon with a further 40+ Y5 and Y6 pupils and more visitors from Merrydale Junior School, St Barnabas C of E Primary, Christ the King Catholic Primary and St John the Baptist C of E Primary.
Thank you to Paul Stapleford. Assistant Head Catherine Junior School (and previously The Phoenix Centre, Leicester City PRU.)
Tim Rylands ICT to inspire morning at Caldecote Community Primary School.
From seeing Tim last year at the ICT to inspire I have been able to go back to my setting with very challenging children and include some of the ideas linked to Myst to engage the children's learning and allow them to thoughtfully respond to questions with confidence.
As a teacher, the experience that Tim Rylands offered last year on the course inspired me to think differently about how I delivered literacy to the children and what different approaches I could take using ICT to empower the children.
Today, using Myst 4 to inspire the children to give responses to what they can see and their ideas on what is happening in the setting, I saw the analog element behind the digital we shared last time. The children were reminded of what was expected from them both with speaking, listening and turn taking. (Standing here, above me the …)
They were all engaged at trying to create the best sentences they possibly could and continually kept looking back at the screen to gain ideas and inspiration. Tim uses the children's writing to challenge themselves and level up their writing finish a paragraph in style…end with a question maybe?
The children tried to copy Tim and use a range of expression to make their writing sound more exciting…. The other children gave good feedback to the reader and were able to respond to how they could make it even better. When reading out their ideas to the others, Tim gave the children ownership of when they read out their 'sparkling sentences' and they moved from one child's writing to the next with amazing fluency and the room was deathly silent as the children listened to their peers ideas.
Using the interactive whiteboard, (but only interacting with it from a distance) the moving images allowed the children to get lost in their writing.
These increasingly confident writers were able to use different ways to say words such as simile or metaphor to help them identify what each of Tim's responses were. He used different sounds to engage the children in the Myst setting. 'The glass was screaming for a clean' was a response by Jonathan to suggest a simile. The responses the children gave were superb.
The children discovered a wide range of sentence openers from the stimulus on the screen and confidently read out their ideas.
As Tim moved through the setting on the screen, the children watched and were able to respond and describe what was going on around them using wonderful language.
The children were encouraged to think of some open questions to ask the gardener and then he used some of the children to hot seat whilst referring to the setting on the screen. The children were really in their role as a particular character and could answer questions from their peers using wonderful answers. Tim used his 'translatorsaurus' to make the children's responses and questions of a higher quality and then passed that opportunity to another children.
The children used the thinking dice within small groups and carried out several different roles, focusing on their speaking and listening skills.
Thanks to Ellen Lee, of Whatever It Takes, Katy Barnes, Business Manager at Caldecote Community Primary School, for organising our day. Back, tomorrow, for some more adventures.


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With such legislation now going national with the help of the Community Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness act, craft and regional brewers are fighting not only for the growth of the sector, but for the closet economy craft beer has become. Craft brewing accounts for more than 100,000 jobs in the U.S., according to the Brewers Association, but ancillary benefits broaden that a bit. Yuengling's Casinelli says that his brewery's success brings more than 50,000 visitors a year into Pottsville for tours of Yuengling's original facilities. That visitor base is more than triple Pottsville's population and is a boon for shops, restaurants and other area businesses.
Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association, says that with more than 1,700 breweries operating in the U.S. -- the most since 1905 -- the majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a brewery. That gives the breweries a sphere of influence that expands from the workers at the facility to the farmers that Koch and Casinelli say have come to their Pottsville and Boston facilities to pick up trailer loads of Yuengling and Boston Beer spent grain (and the 70% of its remaining food value) to feed their slightly tipsy dairy cattle. Craft beer site RateBeer's owner Joseph Tucker says his local Whole Foods (WFMI) in Sonoma County, Calif., uses Russian River Brewing spent grain to make bread.
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Two high-level trips by Americans next week are expected to elicit some understanding of the depth of real attitudes in Beijing and Pyongyang. James Steinberg, deputy secretary of state, travels to Beijing to impress upon the Chinese the need to hold North Korea in check if the Chinese really want "stability," as they often say.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is planning to visit North Korea next week. Mr. Richardson, who has visited several times over the years, has been a strong advocate of "engagement" with North Korea and is expected to try to lay the groundwork for renewed dialogue between North Korea and the US.
At the same time, Dai, reputed as a highly skilled negotiator on close terms with China's President Hu Jintao, is assumed by South Korean officials to have stressed the advantages for North Korea of increasing Chinese aid and trade.
A report by China's Xinhua news agency about Dai and Kim Jong-il reaching "a consensus on bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean peninsula" dramatized China's historic relationship with North Korea.
The report did not mention the Nov. 23 North Korean attack on Yeonpyong Island in the Yellow Sea. It did, however, serve as a reminder of an alliance that dates from the Korean War when Chinese troops drove out American and South Korean forces that had advanced to the Yalu River border.


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With advanced load balancers and decreasing hardware costs, ensuring the scalability of enterprise applications across multiple boxes is becoming more economically feasible. Ideally, an application's TPS (transactions per second) will rise in a linear fashion as the number of servers it runs on increases. However, sooner or later you will encounter performance issues on one box that you can't easily (or at least cheaply) alleviate by scaling across multiple servers, such as your relational database for example. Hence, it is critical to lower your database load. In particular, you can employ efficient caching strategies that reduce the number of SQL queries and the amount of data that needs to be transferred over the wire. One powerful caching strategy that meets these requirements is to combine Hibernate cache (second-level) and Ehcache. In this article I explain how to apply this strategy -- along with the Spring Framework -- to improve the scalability of your enterprise Java applications. I provide source code for a demo application as well. A typical Web request is wrapped around a filter (e.g. a Spring Hibernate session filter) that automatically opens and closes a Hibernate session during its duration. The Spring OpenSessionInViewFilter is an example of such as filter. Within each session, Hibernate maintains a first-level cache to ensure against multiple copies of the same entity within that session. This cache is discarded as soon as the session closes, and it is not persistent. However, Hibernate also offers a second-level cache, which is persistent. It is designed with the capability to cache serialized copies of entities over longer periods of time. Hibernate's cache mechanism is pluggable and various caching libraries offer integration modules for it. Among these, the most popular and robust is by far Ehcache -- an extremely powerful caching product. Using a local in-memory/disk cache can not only lower the load on the database, but it can also dramatically increase read speeds. In an internal test we ran at my organization, we were able to get a throughput of 20,000+ reads per second for a Hibernate entity from a local Ehcache disk cache. Retrieving it directly from the database maxed out at 5000 reads per second -- a significant difference. Ehcache can store large collections of objects in memory or automatically overflow them to disk. It also provides control over many aspects of the caching mechanism, including along others: Let's start off by defining the Spring Hibernate session filter I mentioned previously (OpenSessionInViewFilter) via web.xml: Next, in the Spring beans.xml configuration we will specify a typical Hibernate session factory. The important parts are bolded in the example below: The hibernate.cache.region.factory_class property configures Ehcache as the second-level cache provider. The net.sf.Ehcache.configurationResourceName property tells Ehcache the classpath location of the configuration file that fine-tunes its setting. Note that this file must be in the classpath, hence it's usually embedded in the JAR/WAR file itself. Here's our sample com.developer.ehcache.xml configuration file from the setup in the previous section: Ehcache creates a separate cache for every Hibernate entity, with a name equivalent to its full path. Hence, you can override every entity's cache settings if the need arises. However, in most cases the defaultCache settings are sufficient as a template. In this example we've chosen settings to: The list of Ehcache configuration options is incredibly extensive and goes far beyond this basic example. Just because we've configured Hibernate and Ehcache together, that does not mean that every single entity is now automatically cached. Every single Hibernate entity must be explicitly flagged via the The Hibernate documentation explains the different cache concurrency strategies, but NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE is the most common one. If you are running in a full JTA environment, you may choose TRANSACTIONAL instead. Attached to this is article is a sample application that shows how this all works in practice. It exposes a simple REST service for a basic Person entity under http://localhost:8080/services/person and requires Maven to run. The sample Log4J configuration is set for TRACE for both Hibernate and Ehcache in order to show the most information about what's going on under the hood. When you start the application via Now via the standard Linux Let's look at the server-side log to see what happened on that first request: Hibernate retrieved our entity from the database, stored it in the cache automatically and returned it to us. Now let's issue the same This time Hibernate automatically found our entity in the cache and loaded it directly from memory without hitting the database -- which was the main reason we wanted to use second-level cache in the first place. This of course sounds great and looks easy. However, all of this comes at a price, namely increased complexity (especially during testing). By relying on cached entities, you risk having an out-of-sync cache when an update happens in the database via a different request. As such, you must analyze every entity that can be cached to determine whether serving a potentially stale copy of it is acceptable. Stale copies may be fine for fairly static entities that rarely change, but they would not be appropriate for something such as a bank user's Account object, which should always reflect the latest state in the database. However, options are available for handling those situations. For example, you can configure Ehcache to do multicasting over the network in order to update the caches automatically on all servers whenever an entity gets updated. You even can wrap such a cache refresh within a JTA transaction context to ensure all the caches get updated together. But that's a topic for an upcoming article.
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<filter> <filter-name>hibernateFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>hibernateFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"> <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" /> <property name="hibernateProperties"> <props> <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop> <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect</prop> <prop key="hibernate.connection.isolation">3</prop> <prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop> <prop key="net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName">/com/developer/ehcache.xml</prop> </props> </property> <property name="annotatedClasses"> <list> <value>com.developer.article.model.Person</value> </list> </property></bean>/property></bean>
Fine-tuning Ehcache Settings
<Ehcache> <diskStore path="java.io.tmpdir"/> <defaultCache maxElementsInMemory="10000" eternal="false" timeToIdleSeconds="120" timeToLiveSeconds="120" overflowToDisk="true" maxElementsOnDisk="10000000" diskPersistent="false" diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds="120" memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU" /></Ehcache>
Configuring Hibernate/JPA Entities
annotation:@Entity @Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE)public class Person {}
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mvn jetty:run
it will show a long list of trace messages, out of which the key ones are:Cache region factory : net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory...Creating EhCacheRegionFactory from a specified resource: /com/developer/ehcache.xml. ...Building cache for entity data [com.developer.article.model.Person]Couldn't find a specific Ehcache configuration for cache named [com.developer.article.model.Person]; using defaults.started Ehcache region: com.developer.article.model.Person
command (or any other REST client on your PC platform) we will send a GET
request to our REST Web services to get a JSON representation of a single Person entity that we have in our database:curl http://localhost:8080/services/person/6{"Person":{"id":6,"firstName":"First 3","lastName":"Last 3"}}
adding entity to second-level cache: [com.developer.article.model.Person#6]done materializing entity [com.developer.article.model.Person#6]
command again and see what happens:loading entity: [com.developer.article.model.Person#6]attempting to resolve: [com.developer.article.model.Person#6]assembling entity from second-level cache: [com.developer.article.model.Person#6]
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