perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hi Craig;

There have been several efforts to extend perfSONAR to GENI, in particular 
there is a working group housed within the GENI project that may be a better 
place to start with GENI specific questions.  This would be the 
"Instrumentation and Measurement Working Group", and can be reached via 
.

We are aware of a project called "GEMINI" 
(http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEMINI/Tutorial) that used parts of 
perfSONAR for active measurement functionality (e.g. instrumentation of the 
user's experiment).  GENI used to provide an image of this software with all 
the guts configured - but unfortunately I can't speak specifics on this (that 
is probably a question to ask on the other list).  

Hope this helps;

-jason

On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Craig Finch 
<>
 wrote:

> My goal would be to run perfSONAR on GENI to demonstrate how the tool works 
> and learn about its operation.  Thus, I'm not concerned about high levels 
> of accuracy in the measurements.  Also, you can request actual servers on 
> GENI, not just virtual machines.
> 
>   Craig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Byron Hicks 
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> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Prototyping perfSONAR on GENI?
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> BWCTL and OWAMP rely on a fairly accurate clock and running in a virtual 
> machine is generally discouraged.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Craig Finch" 
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>> To: 
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>> Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2014 2:44:14 PM
>> Subject: [perfsonar-user] Prototyping perfSONAR on GENI?
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>> Has anyone used GENI to simulate perfSONAR? If so, do you have any 
>> recommendations for doing so? Is there a perfSONAR image available on 
>> GENI?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Craig Finch
>> Postdoctoral Research Associate, STOKES Advanced Research Computing 
>> Center
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>> Institute for Simulation & Training
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>> University of Central Florida
>> 3100 Technology Pkwy., Orlando, FL 32826-0544
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