Speaker
Mr
Shahryar Khan
(Stanford Linear Acclerator Center)
Description
The future of Computing in High Energy Physics (HEP) applications depends on
both the Network and Grid infrastructure. Some South Asian countries such as
India and Pakistan are making progress in this direction by not only building
Grid clusters, but also by improving their network infrastructure. However to
facilitate the use of these resources, they need to overcome the issues of
network connectivity to be among the leading participants in Computing for HEP
experiments. In this paper we classify the connectivity for academic and
research institutions of South Asia. The quantitative measurements are carried
out using the PingER methodology; an approach that induces minimal ICMP
traffic to gather end-to-end network statistics. The PingER project has been
measuring the Internet performance for the last decade. Currently the
measurement infrastructure comprises of over 700 hosts in more than 130
countries which collectively represents approximately 99% of the world's
Internet-connected population. Thus, we are well positioned to characterize
the world's connectivity. Here we present the current state of the National
Research and Educational Networks (NRENs) and Grid Infrastructure in the
South Asian countries and identify the areas of concern. We also present
comparisons between South Asia and other developing as well as developed
regions. We show that there is a strong correlation between the Network
performance and several Human Development indices.
| Submitted on behalf of Collaboration (ex, BaBar, ATLAS) | SLAC Networking Group |
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Author
Mr
Shahryar Khan
(Stanford Linear Acclerator Center)
Co-authors
Dr
Arshad Ali
(NUST Institute of Information Technology)
Dr
Les Cottrell
(Stanford Linear Acclerator Center)
Mr
Umar Kalim
(NUST Institute of Information Technology)
