[net-perf] CENIC piPEs workshop

[Russ Hobby]

Hi Mike, do you have a recommended Hotel out of the list?  It might be more 
convenient if a significant number of us were able to converge at the same one.

Russ

At 03:11 PM 5/3/2005, Michael Van Norman wrote:
>The workshop will be Wednesday and Thursday (June 29 and 30) at UCLA, so
>book your calendars.  I'll leave it to Russ to send out the agenda
>specifics.  The "Visitors" link of the UCLA Homepage (www.ucla.edu) will
>lead you to area hotels.
>
>/Mike
>
>
>On 4/22/05 1:13 PM, "Michael Van Norman" <mvn at ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> > To update everybody on progress.  ken and I have been working with Russ
> > Hobby to host an E2Epi Network Performance Workshop
> > (http://e2epi.internet2.edu/network-perf-wk/index.html) at UCLA the week
> > of June 27.  The exact dates are still being worked out.  The agenda
> > will probably vary from what is on the web site as they are still
> > working on the format, but it will be two days in length.  It looks like
> > we will be getting space to handle two people from each HPR connector +
> > CENIC (so you can start fighting amongst yourselves now :).  Even though
> > the dates are not yet set, I wanted to get this out so you can start
> > planning your schedules and working on getting the requirements for
> > participation
> > (http://e2epi.internet2.edu/network-perf-wk/requirements.html) into place.
> >
> > I should have all the details by the next HPR-TAC meeting.  My
> > expectation is that this workshop will kick-off a full piPEs
> > infrastructure for CalREN.
> >
> > On a related front, Mark and I have been working with the NLANR folks on
> > the campus network version of their AMP monitors.  I expect that we will
> > get copies of the code real soon now.  I hope to have something to
> > present on this effort at the next meeting as well.
> >
> > /Mike
> >
> > Mark Boolootian wrote:
> >> Hi Garrett,
> >>
> >>
> >>> What is the status of deploying Pipes in CENIC? Do we have all campuses
> >>> on board with doing this? Is there a timeline for deployment? Who is
> >>> the CENIC expert in this area? How much progress has been made so far?
> >>
> >>
> >> Mike Van Norman and myself are supposed to be leading the effort to
> >> promote deployment of performance measurement tools within CENIC.  But,
> >> sigh, work keeps getting in the way of accomplishing anything useful.
> >>
> >> There is a mailing list associated with this effort:
> >>
> >>   http://lists.cenic.org/mailman/listinfo/network-performance
> >>
> >> but no activity.  I believe Mike was going to draft an email that 
> articulated
> >> recommendations for campus baseline configurations.  At a minimum, 
> that would
> >> include OWAMP and BWCTL.  Running an AMP probe, multicast beacon, and NDT
> >> server would be extremeley valuable.
> >>
> >> The CENIC expert would have to be Russ.  Russ has attempted to get
> >> the ball rolling on more than one occasion, but so far there isn't
> >> anything to report in the way of progress.  UCSC is planning on 
> OWAMP/BWCTL
> >> deployment (by summer I hope) and I'm fairly certain both UCLA and 
> Berkeley
> >> plan on deploying said servers as well.
> >>
> >> I think I can safely say that OWAMP/BWCTL are the mechanisms of choice
> >> for performance measurement within CENIC, and that's the direction that
> >> most campuses are headed (albeit slowly).  The real trick is overcoming
> >> the current inertial state.  Please join the mailing list above and 
> complain
> >> about the slack leadership :-)
> >>
> >> mb
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> >
>
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