perfsonar development work

[Joe Metzger <>]

Nicolas,
In general I think we are making good forward progress on the
data collection side.  We still have lots to do, but I see that
part coming together.

I was wondering if anybody was actively working on visualizations
that would tie all of this raw data together using a GIS approach.
Last January I was pleasantly surprised to see the progress that
perfSONARUI and VisualperfSONAR had achived. Are there more
surprises for me in store for this January?

If not, that is OK.  Personally I think we still have 6 months to
a year of work to do on the underlying data collection and
management problems before we have a solid base of information to
display in this type of visualzation. So, I don't want to redirect
resources to this area.  But if somebody is already starting it, great!


BTW, I think it is a good idea for all of the developers to see this
type of visualizations and think: "What capabilities are necessary to
tie all of this information together?"


--Joe


Nicolas Simar wrote:
> Joe Metzger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My management has asked if perfSONAR could support some of the
> > visualizations that DREN is starting to use.
> >
> > http://www.wcisd.hpc.mil/~phil/Planet-DREN/
> >
> > This is an interesting integration of Toplogy, Utilization,
> > Latency and Bandwidth measurements.
> >
> > Is anybody working on this?
>
> You mean on providing:
> - topology information - Topology service (under construction - Ulisses 
> can tell us more about the time scale)
> - Getting the geographical coordinates - thoughts have been exchanged. 
> Andreas can most likely summarise the current status.
> - latency measurement - Hades MA can provide some, 16 sites installed 
> and RIPE TTM MA (6-10 sites).
> - bandwidth measurements - No MA yet, Verena and Stephan should be able 
> to tell more about this. Few sites installed.
>
> I am mentioning capability with few points monitored, not about large 
> scale deployment.
>
> What are the expectations?
>
> Nicolas
>
> > --Joe