Speaker
Prof.
Harvey Newman
(CALTECH)
Description
The main objective of the VINCI project is to enable data intensive applications to
efficiently use and coordinate shared, hybrid network resources, to improve the
performance and throughput of global-scale grid systems, such as those used in high
energy physics. VINCI uses a set of agent-based services implemented in the MonALISA
framework to enable the efficient use of network resources, coordinated with
computing and storage resources. VINCI is an integrated network service system that
provides client authentication and authorization, discovery of services and the
topology of connections, workflow scheduling, global optimization and monitoring.
The distributed agent system provides dynamically, on demand, end to end optical (or
layer two VLAN) connections in less than one second independent of the location and
the number of optical switches involved. It monitors and supervises all the created
connections and is able to automatically generate an alternative path in case of
connectivity errors. The alternative path is set up rapidly enough to avoid a TCP
timeout, and thus to allow the transfer to continue uninterrupted.
Dedicated agents are used to monitor the client systems and to detect hardware and
software configuration. They can perform end to end performance measurements and if
necessary to configure the systems.
We are developing agents able to interact with GMPLS and CIENA’s G.ASON network
control plane protocols and to integrate this functionality into the network services
provided by the VINCI framework.
Primary authors
Ciprian Dobre
(Polytechnic University of Bucharest)
Prof.
Harvey Newman
(CALTECH)
Dr
Iosif Legrand
(CALTECH)
Ramiro Voicu
(CALTECH)
