WLCG/OSG Network Discussion (OSGPath, NRP, IRIS-HEP)

Europe/Zurich
Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
Description

This is a weekly Thursday meeting, except for the third Thursday of the month, and provides a venue to discuss network monitoring, measurement, analytics, alerting and alarming for OSG-LHC, NRP, OSG-PATh, IRIS-HEP and others interested in the topics being discussed.

Our agendas and meeting notes are available in this Google Folder  (Please request edit access if you need it)

We use Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/99139520450?pwd=RmlrYjhLdTlCRkdQUGFTY0J5OG9xUT09

    • Network Discussion: Meeting

      Discuss network topics for R&E network users including monitoring, measurement, analytics, alerting and alarming

      Conveners: Marian Babik (CERN), Petya Vasileva (University of Michigan (US)), Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
      • 1
        Top of Meeting

        Discuss top of meeting and current action items.

        Speaker: Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
      • 2
        Round-table

        Round the table to discuss and/or present current work and associated questions as well as plans for the near term

        • a) Multi-modal Transport for Integrated Research Infrastructure

          Data Acquisition (DAQ) workloads form an important class of scientific network traffic that by its nature (1) flows across different research infrastructure, including remote instruments and supercomputer clusters, (2) has ever-increasing throughput demands, and (3) has ever-increasing integration demands—for example, observations at one instrument could trigger a reconfiguration of another instrument.

          This talk describes ongoing work on developing specialized transport protocols for DAQ workloads. It introduces a new transport feature for this kind of elephant flow: multi-modality involves the network actively configuring the transport protocol to change how DAQ flows are processed across different underlying networks that connect scientific
          research infrastructure. This idea takes advantage of programmable network hardware that is increasingly being deployed in scientific research infrastructure. The talk describes an initial evaluation through a pilot study on a hardware testbed and using data from a particle detector.

          Bio:
          http://www.cs.iit.edu/~nsultana1/bio.txt

      • 3
        AOB

        Other business, next meeting time.