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• How important is bulk data transfer in the ACS community?
• TAO A/V BulkData Limitations
  • Lack of maintenance
  • Long Standing Bug
  • No Multicast
  • Only Implemented for Components (No standalone clients)
• RTI DDS Limitations
  • Licensing Costs
  • Complex Tuning (Though very flexible)
• ZeroMQ Implementation by CTA/UTFSM Agreement
• Other ideas or topics?

Summary and Action Items

• ACS should provide a Bulk Data mechanism out of the box.
  • Clear benefit. All the community on the same page, solving problems and sharing solutions for a common mechanism.
• Heads-up on technology obsolescence for DDS. Could be an issue at some point. ZeroMQ are have good traction in the industry. Worth the effort to push forward with it.
• Igor will try to contact Mauricio Araya to find out status of ZeroMQ BulkData Integration. Hopefully a meeting can be arranged during this workshop.
• BulkData lack of Documentation. Setup one stop place to retrieve the docs.
• LLAMA has tested OpenDDS for BulkData TX . Integration issues with component/container model of ACS. Expected to be solved  with  version 3.14. Did Test with RTPS.
• The use case for BulkData in CTA involves one-to-one mode only.