Transatlantic Performance Monitoring Workshop 2004

March 17, 2004 - CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Transatlantic Performance Monitoring Workshop 2004 is a joint effort by Internet2 and DANTE to bring together researchers from the United States and the European Union interested in building performance measurement frameworks. In specific, the workshop aims to inform members of the Internet2 E2E piPEs team, the GN2 JRA1 group, and the EGEE JRA4 group about the ongoing and planned activities of the other groups and, hopefully, lead to consensus on potential areas of collaboration.

The goals of the workshop are twofold, and possibly threefold: awareness, interoperability, and, possibly, shared open source development. At the very least, we hope to share best practices and establish a practical plan for interoperability between planned American and European performance measurement frameworks. If there is found to be a commonality of goals, code developed on one continent could possibly be reused on the other to fill an unmet need.

A sample use case might be as follows: An astronomer of the VLBI community at the Haystack observatory in the United States interested in shipping large amounts of data from the Onsala observatory in Sweden ought to be able to do partial path analysis along the network path from Onsala to Haystack, including segmenting the path across the Abilene and GEANT backbones.

The workshop will consist of four sessions:

• Session 1: Interoperable Measurement Frameworks
• Session 2: Measurement-Framework Ready Tools
• Session 3: Measurement Framework Consumers (& Producers)
• Session 4: Collaboration Discussion

A discussion list for this workshop has been created: transatlantic-perf-mon@internet2.edu. Please feel free to ask questions in that forum. You may subscribe that list here.