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
Q: Concerning the Performance Portal, how are you planning to capture OpenFlow data?
A: We have been evaluating tools internally. So far, inMon ( http://www.inmon.com/ ) looks promising. We are still working on the database schema.
The Challenge (Carla Hunt and Ken Miller)
See Carla Hunt's Slides on the Challenge and the North Carolina Response
- What do the next generation of NOC tools and/or Advanced User tools look like?
- There has been a lot of feedback about NDT. http://www.internet2.edu/performance/ndt/
- Less feedback about other tools
See Ken Miller's Slides on Network Performance and Measurement
- Much work at PSU around the Network Performance Toolkit
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/
New Co-Chair
- Ken Miller, of PSU was voted in officially as new co-chair of the Performance Working Group.'
- The classification of the group was discussed.
- Should the group be classified as a working group or special interest group? Still an open question.