perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

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?

(This is Phil Dykstra's stuff, right? Matt and I were helping him get some OWAMP 
data collected for the Abilene/DREN peering points... But, I don't know if he is 
integrating any of that into these visualizations. This is very nice work.)

I guess it depends on what you mean by 'supporting' those visualizations... I'm 
sure there are similar things in the works in CNM and Nemo (and perhaps Vedrin 
has ambitious plans for perfSONARUI).

I suspect the easiest way to support these types of visualizations is to make 
integrating the perfSONAR data into other applications as easy as possible. For 
example, if Phil could have his application consume the data that is made 
available from various perfSONAR MA's.

The trick would be to make sure we have geographical references for all subjects 
in the MA's.

I don't think anyone could adequately answer how difficult it would be to 
integrate pS data into Phil's application without knowing what kind of data 
collection his stuff uses. (And Phil probably doesn't know enough about 
perfSONAR to know from his side.)

But, I think these kinds of integrations are the way forward. Similar to the way 
that we have integrated into existing RRD infrastructures to make data 
available, we should integrate into existing visualization and analysis tools.

jeff