High Performance Networking Workshop

by (CERN)

Friday 15 Sept 2000, 09:00 → 10:00 Europe/Zurich

IT Auditorium (CERN)

9.00 Opening Hans Hoffmann, Director of Computing and Technology Transfer / CERN 9.10 Grid Computing Ben Segal / CERN 9.40 CERN Activities: GSN-Optical, GSN to OC48c, Plans for 10 Gigabit Ethernet, ST for LINUX. Arie Van Praag / CERN 10.00 ST Efficiency Alberto Guglielmi / Genroco, USA 10.30 SAN Technologies: SCSI over ST Genroco, USA 11.00 'iSCSI - A SCSI mapping over TCP' Julian Satran / IBM, Israel 11.30 Cluster operating systems, GFS, SANergy Dimitry Chernyshov / Tivoli, USA 12.00 CXFS SGI, USA 12.30 SAN Experts Facility Europe: the high speed Jarno Puff / SAN Training Center, networking references point in Europe, Italy 12.40 LUNCH 14.00 10 Gbit Ethernet Walther Dey / Cisco 14.30 10 Gbit Ethernet chip technology Fred Mohamadi / Broadcom, USA 15.00 Infiniband Bob Pearson / Vieo, USA 15.30 to 18.00 Technology Demonstrations in the CERN Computer Centre For the technology demonstration it is planned to show: - The first GSN Optical connections - GSN switches from ESSENTIAL, GENROCO and VIEO - PCI to GSN NICs from ESSENTIAL, GENROCO and VIEO - The new SGI Origin 3000 with native GSN NICs - Bridges equipped to connect GSN to Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and OC48c - Cluster File systems from SANergy and SGI - ST and SCSI-ST connections over Gigabit Ethernet. - ISCSI - SCSI over IP High performance networking practice today offers Gigabit/sec media speeds as well as protocol stacks capable of handling data rates of this order while running on hardware that is affordable by the general user. At the same time we are seeing the emergence of 10-Gigabit/sec technology, plus an explosion of interest in SAN's, where the TCP/IP stack is replaced by more direct means of running storage protocols such as SCSI over Fibre Channel as well as other media. Highlights of the CERN Workshop are reports and/or demonstrations on: GSN: Gigabyte System Network, the first ANSI standard 10-Gigabit technology, running today on both parallel copper and parallel optical fibre links. (the latter just developed at CERN). 10-GigE: the rapidly emerging standard for Ethernet at 10 Gigabits/sec. ST Protocol: the Scheduled Transfer Protocol, permitting both high bandwidth and low latency support including support for SCSI over standard media such as Gigabit Ethernet (GigE). SAN Bridges: SCSI-over-ST (SST), running over various network media including GSN and GigE, bridged to standard Fibre Channel storage. The Workshop is organized in collaboration with the High Performance Network Forum (HNF).

Organiser(s): A. Van Praag

Note: For more information and last minute updates contact A. Van Praag at 75034