perfSONAR Workshop

First Workshop on the perfSONAR Network Measurement Infrastructure

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DATE: 8-9 July 2010 Crystal Gateway Marriott Arlington VA Submission deadline: April 30, 2010 >>> REPORT <<<

SPONSORS: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program Large Scale Networking (LSN) Coordinating Group National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department of Energy - Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Purpose

This 1.5-day workshop will bring together researchers, applications developers, network operators, network managers, and others with an interest in network research and network performance monitoring and measurement. The goal of the workshop is to use perfSONAR as a focus to cross-fertilize ideas from the network research community and the needs of the research and education networks around the world, documenting open areas and best practices. Potential focus areas are detailed in the full Call for Participation.

Researchers will benefit by presenting relevant research projects, hearing operational and engineering needs, and learning about the protocols and system as a distribution channel for research results. Operators and engineers will benefit through exposure to research results and by articulating engineering challenges and research needs, and learning how perfSONAR might meet some of your needs. Because perfSONAR is relatively easy to extend and deploy, discussions are expected to have impact on the future development of perfSONAR protocols as well as deployments.

The result of the workshop is expected to be the creation of an ongoing community of interest coupled with a report summarizing the current community consensus on potential research focus areas, deployment strategies, open issues, and operational requirements.

Registration

This workshop is open to 80 participants; potential attendees are asked to read the Call for Participation, submit a paragraph explanation of their interest in attending, and provide supporting information if requested. The Executive Committee will review all submissions, select a representative group of researchers, applications developers, and network operators to participate. As they are confirmed, their names will be added to the official roster.

Lodging

A room block at the Crystal Gateway Marriott is available; information on the room block can be found HERE.

Materials

Workshop Agenda
Supporting Materials (including slides to Tutorial)
Evaluation Results [PDF]
Workshop Report [PDF]

Background

perfSONAR is an extensible, standards-based network performance monitoring middleware infrastructure, that not only facilitates the ability to solve end-to-end performance problems on paths crossing several networks but also enables network-aware applications. This infrastructure supports performance data collection and exchange between multiple networks using well-known protocols and formats. perfSONAR was designed and developed internationally, by technologists within the research and education networking community. perfSONAR is based on schemas developed in an open standards body, the Open Grid Forum. More than 68 entities around the world, ranging from backbone networks to universities to government laboratories have deployed perfSONAR. For more information, see: psps.perfsonar.net (Perl-based effort in the U.S., including links to use-cases) and www.perfsonar.net (overview of the international project).

Quick Links:

• Workshop Agenda
• Call for Participation
• Roster
• Supporting Materials