perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Gaetano Vocca <>]

Hello Hervey,
This would be great for me as well

Gaetano 



> Il giorno 11/apr/2015, alle ore 01:22, Hervey Allen 
> <>
>  ha scritto:
> 
>> On 4/10/15 1:04 PM, Eli Dart wrote:
>> There is some stuff on perfsonar.net <http://perfsonar.net> about hardware:
>> 
>> http://www.perfsonar.net/deploy/hardware-selection/
>> 
>> http://www.perfsonar.net/deploy/hardware-selection/deployment-examples/
>> 
>> If others have more specific info that they can share, on or off list,
>> that's excellent (thanks Chris!!)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Eli
> 
> We are about to test new hardware we have purchased for 10G links. We
> should have some results within 1 to 2 weeks. If that's still useful I
> can share with the list what we purchased.
> 
> - Hervey
> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Chris Dagdigian 
>> <
>> <mailto:>>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>    In a high performance computing context the current Intel haswell
>>    stuff is driving 40Gbps interfaces so servers that can handle 10Gbps
>>    should not be particularly hard to find.
>> 
>>    For commercal/biotech clients I've recently helped purchase HP
>>    branded server hardware for both perfSONAR use as well as to drive
>>    our data transfer nodes running Globus Connect server. If you want
>>    to drop me a line off-list I can share general info about the
>>    hardware we used on that project.
>> 
>>    Note that we did not get guarantees from the vendor though. We have
>>    been able to drive both the perfSONAR and the data xfer nodes close
>>    to what we'd expect to be their real world limits before heroic host
>>    and network tuning is done. Our environment has firewalls and amazon
>>    direct connect in the mix so there are a lot of moving parts that
>>    affect real world throughput.
>> 
>>    Happy to share info off list.  I also think that the
>>    perfsonar/ESNET/I2 people are somewhat constrained in being able to
>>    mention brands and vendors -- they can't really be seen to be
>>    picking favorites etc.
>> 
>>    Regards,
>>    Chris
>> 
>> 
>>        Manglos, Andrew P (173E) 
>> <mailto:
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>> <mailto:>>
>>        April 10, 2015 at 3:42 PM
>> 
>> 
>>        Hello,
>> 
>>        I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations they could
>>        make for hardware that does 10Gbps throughput testing? I have
>>        been having trouble finding a vendor that will guarantee or at
>>        least show me a bench mark that a particular server can in fact
>>        achieve 10Gbps of throughput. Thanks!
>> 
>>        Thank you and have a great day!
>> 
>>        -Andrew Manglos
>> 
>>        Network Engineer
>> 
>>        818-393-2419 <tel:818-393-2419>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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