perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Abhishek,

The perfSONARBUOY BWCTL are up for those hosts doing regular throughput 
testing with other hosts. The BWCTL services are up for any host that wants 
to allow folks to do throughput tests with it. I’d presume more sites have a 
BWCTL daemon available than are doing regular throughput tests, so it doesn’t 
surprise me that there are fewer perfSONARBUOY BWCTL listings.

As per question #3, what is your goal with these hosts? Are you trying to do 
some BWCTL tests to them, or are you looking for the results of throughput 
tests that have been done in the past?

Cheers,
Aaron

On Jun 5, 2014, at 1:33 PM, 

 wrote:

> I am in the  process of finding targets for BWCTL testing. I am using
> https://stats.es.net/perfSONAR/directorySearch.html as my reference.
> 
> I am not sure about the  difference in perfSONAR-BUOY BWCTL(Services) &
> BWCTL(Measurement tools) except that BUOY needs a perfSONAR-BUOY instance 
> and
> has a Measurement archive.
> 
> It raises a number of questions for me:
> 1. why  more  listings in BWCTL Servers(693) than perfSONAR-BUOY BWCTL(271)?
> 2. Is it because these BWCTL Servers also include independent measurement
> tools which are not part of a perfSONAR installation?
> 3. In this case, I am not sure which will give a better set of targets, the
> perfSONAR-BUOY BWCTL or BWCTL since these targets can be used for scheduling
> other tests if they are perfSONAR boxes.
> 
> I apologize if these questions seem pretty obvious but these are issues I
> wanted to clear up.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Abhishek