Meeting Minutes from Performance Working Group at 2012 Joint Techs in Baton Rouge
Monday, Jan. 22, 2012
http://events.internet2.edu/2012/jt-loni/agenda.cfm?go=session&id=10002152&event=1223
Internet2 Update (Jeff Boote)
Recently ported OSCARS v6, which is an IDC protocol ready for initial consumption that has been ported to OpenFlow
Currently evaluating priorities and Roadmap for perfSONAR
The Challenge (Carla Hunt and Ken Miller)
Question:In your presentation on the performance portal this morning, how are you planning to capture flow data?
Answer:We have been evaluating tools internally. So far, NMON, looks promising. We are still working on the database schema.
Community comments following Carla and Ken's presentations:
- There was some agreement on usefulness of being able to specify MTU size.
- Also a comment that it would be nice if the perfSONAR interface reflected results of MTU related to iPerf/BWCTL.
- Is there any way to co-schedule throughput and latency measurement tests on perfSONAR toolkit nodes?
- Ability to centralize storage of test results?
- Application layer testing
- Current toolkit provides a gui to configure tests on one host.
- A bit more challenging to develop a gui way to configure a constellation of scheduled measurement tests.
- How can a NOC check to see if Multicast is working?
- How much Multicast traffic is really being generated?
-NLANR Multicast beacon used to be useful for this.
-Possible the project has not been updated in a while.
Outreach to Research and Campus - SBIR program (Rich Carlson)
- Rich Carlson talked about the DOE SBIR program in the Office of Science.
- He is looking for better tools to run performance tests and manage infrastructure.
- Think about partnering with or starting up a new business. 1.1 M of funding over three years.
- More information: http://science.energy.gov/SBIR/
We voted Ken Miller in officially as new co-chair and discussed the classification of the group. Should it be classified as a working group or special interest group? Still an open question.