Performance Working Group
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Minutes from Face-to-Face Meeting at
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2011 Spring Member Meeting, 20-April-2011
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AGENDA:
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- Internet2 Update -- Jeff Boote
- Indiana University’s Data Capacitor Wide Area Network (DC-WAN) (see abstract) -- – Matt Link, Robert Henschel_
- Speed Test Tool (see abstract) -- – Community Anchor Institution Data Collection and Mapping Working Group - Randy Stout, Seth Peery
- Circuit Monitoring Implementation for OSCARS (see abstract) --Aaron Brown
- Periscope - Martin Swany and Dan Gunter
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Internet2 Update - Jeff Boote
Jeff Boote explained that Carla Hunt and Chris Hawkinson, co-chairs, were unable to attend this WG meeting.
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- Internet2 staff members have been involved in recent months with projects relating to NSF grants:
- - IRIS (International Research Instrumentation System)
- - DyGIR (Dynamic Gateway for International Research)
- - DYNES (Development of Dynamic Network Systems)
- Some of the work involves supporting OSCARS (On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System), IDC deployments and perfSONAR deployments in support of those grants
- Largest development effort is getting circuit monitoring integrated with Dynamic Circuit provisioning, to be described by Aaron Brown later in this session
- Ongoing perfSONAR work involves understanding specific needs of IRNC (International Research Network Connections) participants
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Q: Do you look at the visualization when there is problem with the file system performance, or when there is a new wide area link or all the time for quality control?
A: Can capture and visualize data all he time, though we can't link to application in every case. Generally, we run the visualization once when we branch to new location.
Q: For the data capacitor, what network data characteristics are best : low latency? same performance in both directions?
A: Best is when there is symmetric routing, same path back and forth, otherwise it can be necessary to debug on 2 networks. Also, obviously, the lower the latency the better. Performance is important, but we also stress the convenience aspect. Uses TCP for network connection
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