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1. Internet2 update, given by Jason Zurawski
Slides are available for further detail.
See:
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2010feb/20100202-PerfWG-zurawski.pdf
- Software Releases
Last official release of perfSonar -ps and the Toolkit in 2009
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Longer term - AA integration into ps tools, Configuration management, Possible rewrite of NDT and integration with BWCTL, evaluation of TCP implementation - right now is RENO
- Product Adoption:
USATLAS continues to utilize pSPT, preparing recommendations for Tier 3's
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Google MLAB- Deployment continues, NDT development in the past year has been driven by MLAB
- Standardization
Continue to be heavily involved in OGF participation. Four working groups: NM, NMC, NML, NSI
- Outreach
a) SC09
I2 assisted REDDnet in a BW Challenge entry
ION and I2 connections to Portland 20G total
perfSONAR measurement infrastructure at SC'09 covered in Aaron's talk today!
Matt Z will be leading SCinet Measurement next year
b) APAN - next week
- Other
Open positions on the team!
http://www.internet2.edu/about/staff/careers#nse
Discussion about backup of measurement data on toolkit hosts. Consider moving data to alternate location for long term archiving. Toolkit not really designed with robust backup capability.
2. eduPERT activity (http://edupert.geant.net/) Chris Welti, SWITCH
See:
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2010feb/20100202-EduPERT-JTech.pdf
Help desk for users of R&E network users
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Prasad Calyam, Ohio Supercomputing Center (15min)
"How should an active measurement service operate within an
experimenter's slice (encompassing Internet2 backbone resources)
in the GENI facility?"
See:
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2010feb/20100202-calyam.pdf
Discussion:
What does GENI stand for? Global Environment for Network Integration
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Katsuhiro Sebayashi, NTT Network Innovation Labs (15min)
"PRESTA 10G, a 10Gbps network interface card (NIC) with highly-accurate traffic-measurement capabilities"
See:
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2010feb/20100201-sebayashi.pdf
Has presta 10G been looked at for bulk data transfer
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Dr. Kenji Shimizu, NTT Network Innovation Labs (15min)
"Development of Measurement Archive (MA) capability for PRESTA 10G that is compatible with the perfSonar measurement infrastructure"
See:
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2010feb/20100202-shimizu.pdf
A bit of discussion about the data storage format - why RRD? Not entirely clear why there was a need to develop an HRA interface.