perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Greetings;

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Second NSF Workshop on perfSONAR based Multi-domain Network Performance 
Measurement and Monitoring (pSW 2014)
Venue: National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
Dates: 02/20/14 – 02/21/14
Website: http://psW2014.wordpress.com

**Call for Participation (By Invitation Only)**

perfSONAR (http://www.perfsonar.net) is an infrastructure and a set of 
services for network performance monitoring, facilitating the ability to make 
and exchange performance measurements in order to: (a) solve end-to-end 
performance problems on paths crossing several networks, and (b) enable 
network-aware applications. There are over 700 publicly registered perfSONAR 
toolkit deployments worldwide, and the adoption is continuing to grow rapidly 
within data-intensive application communities.

The Second NSF-sponsored perfSONAR Workshop (pSW2014) will run from 9am 
February 20th to noon February 21st, 2014 at NSF, Arlington VA. The second 
workshop builds upon the success of the first workshop held 8-9 July 2010 in 
Arlington, VA, and is open to members of the network and system measurement 
community that includes a variety of stakeholders: researchers, applications 
developers, network operators, network managers, and others with an interest 
in network/system research and performance measurement/monitoring. The 
workshop aims to bring together these stakeholders for delivering targeted 
tutorials, talks sharing latest advances/demos from invited speakers, and 
fostering discussions to identify gaps that exist for solving prominent 
issues such as:

- Network measurement tools development and calibration
- Algorithms and Techniques for Automated Network Troubleshooting
- Architectures for Federated Measurement Collection, Analysis and Sharing
- Measurement Federation related Standards-development Efforts
- Monitoring of Software Defined, and Overlay Networks
- Measurement of Cloud and Grid Application Environments
- Security and Policy Considerations for Federated Measurements
- Case Studies of End-to-End Network/System Performance Troubleshooting
- Applications Integration and Deployment (e.g., network support use cases in 
Science DMZ, Cloud/HPC and BigData)

Participants who would like to present at the workshop are requested to send 
a presentation abstract along with a brief bio (in PDF format) to 

 with the subject line as "<Speaker Name> Presentation Abstract". NSF-funded 
travel grants are available for speakers.
**Presentation Abstract Submission deadline: December 20, 2013**
**Acceptance notification: January 10, 2014**

Participants who would like to attend the workshop to contribute in the 
discussions should send a 1-Page description (in PDF format) of the intent to 
participate to 

 with the subject line as "<Attendee Name> Intent Abstract". The description 
should include: (i) a brief bio, (ii) a set of challenges and opportunities 
relating to network/system performance measurement/monitoring that should be 
discussed in the workshop, and (iii) how your participation would add value 
to the workshop discussions.
**Intent Abstract Submission deadline: December 20, 2013**
**Invitation notification: January 10, 2014**
If travel support is needed, please follow instructions provided at - 
http://psw2014.wordpress.com/travel-support

We strongly encourage participation not only from current perfSONAR 
stakeholders, but also from potential stakeholders and research community 
members not previously involved in perfSONAR activities but are interested in 
joining and contributing to the perfSONAR community.