Internet2 Organization, Applications, and EndtoEnd Performance Initiative

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Internet2 Organization, Applications, and
End-to-End Performance Initiative
See http//apps.internet2.edu/talks

• Ted Hanss Cheryl Munn-Fremon, Internet2
• 15 April 2002

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Topics

• Organization
• Applications
• End-to-End Performance Initiative

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Organization
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Internet2 Mission

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies for research and higher
  education, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows internet.

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Internet2/Federal Relationship

• Separate but interdependent
• U.S. Efforts in Large Scale Networking
• Led by Federal government
• Focused on Federal agency needs
• Source of significant RD funding and leadership
• Internet2
• Led by higher education
• Focused on research and education needs

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Applications
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Internet2 Applications

• What are Internet2 applications?
• They deliver qualitative and quantitative
  improvements in how we conduct research and
  engage in teaching and learning
• They require advanced networks to work

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Different Disciplines/Contexts

• Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
• Health care
• Business/Law
• Administration

• Library
• Classroom
• Clinic
• Office
• Laboratory
• Dorm room

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Application Attributes

• Interactive collaboration
• Real-time access to remote resources

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Attributes, cont.

• Large-scale, multi-site computation and data
  mining
• Shared virtual reality
• Any combination of the above

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• End to End Performance Initiative

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The Mission

• To enable the researchers, faculty, students and
  staff who use high performance networks to obtain
  optimal performance from the current
  infrastructure on a consistent basis.

Raw Connectivity
Applications Performance
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The Problem
Hey, this is not working right!
Others are getting in ok
Not our problem
Applications Developer
Applications Developer
The computer Is working OK
Looks fine
All the lights are green
How do you solve a problem along a path?
We dont see anything wrong
The network is lightly loaded
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What the design team said

• Applications
• Host/OS
• Measurement Infrastructure
• Operations and Human Communications
• Performance Improvement Environment (PIE)
• Performance Evaluation and Review Framework (PERF)

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This is what we need to do

• Understand the applications and their performance
  requirements
• Provide information about how to run networks in
  a reasonable way to achieve performance goals
• Help the user who is running an application
  troubleshoot problems
• Create something that brings all of this together
  for the end user

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Measurement Workshop

• Packet loss is the top priority attribute that we
  need to study
• We need a common schema for measurement data
  representation and exchange
• Workshop activities need to continue using the
  Measurement Working Group for communication
• http//www.internet2.edu/e2epi/WK01/workshop01_sum
  mary01.shtml

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For More Information

• INFO-E2EPI_at_internet2.edu
• http//www.internet2.edu/e2epi/
• e2eperf-interest_at_internet2.edu
• Ted Hanss
• ted_at_internet2.edu
• http//apps.internet2.edu

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