Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[Larry Dunn <>]

Susan, (cc'ing MattM, SteveW - mentioned below...)
I'm not sure about routinely offered classes/workshops.
But here's a short list of folks I'd ping; they have all been
involved in high-performance transfers, and I think have either put
together workshops before, or are at least certainly
comfortable in front of a crowd.
Worst case, if none of them are available/willing, let me know- I
might be game to help put something together...

1. Matt Mathis 
()
 - did SACK, worked with John Heffner on
  web100, and has been a proponent/experiments of high-performance
  transfers for a long time.

2. Steve Wallace 
()
 - guilty of helping
  create Tsunami, and therefore facile with transferring
  large data sets. ;-)

3. I'm pretty sure the folks at NLANR/DAST have done high-performance
  workshops in the past, but it looks like their funding has ended.
  Still, the individuals might be operational -
  steve w.- any ideas/pointers?

4. Attendees (esp. the ones that attend multiple years) of PFLDNet:
  http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009/Program.html
  and:
  http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009/Commitee.html
  are pretty well-versed, and it wouldn't surprise me
  if some of them held classes at their home institutions.
  THis might take a bit of digging, but if 1,2,3 (above) don't
  work out, I could help ping some of these folks.

Basically, folks in either the
 high-performance computing community (cf. http://sc09.supercomputing.org 
 )
or the transport community (this mail list not a bad start...)
are the ones that are likely to help here...

Best regards (and let me know if I can help further),
Larry Dunn
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On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Susan Evett wrote:

> All,
>
> Not sure if this is the right group but you may be aware of a class/ 
> course offering somewhere that focuses on transferring large data  
> sets and I would love to hear about it.
>
> Thanks for any input,
> --Susan
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Renee Woodten Frost 
> > <>
> > Date: June 22, 2009 8:56:37 AM GMT-04:00
> > To: Linda Roos 
> > <>
> > Cc: tto-staff 
> > <>
> > Subject: [TTO-staff] Re: question re: class offering
> >
> > Hi Linda,
> > We do not have anything like that (of which I am aware anyway) in  
> > our current box of options and unless we have more interest, it  
> > might not be economical to create such a class.  We can check with  
> > the Member Relations team to see if they have had any other  
> > requests for such a class.  I am copying our team who might know of  
> > Internet2 member individuals we could link up with George to teach  
> > such a class for him and/or we could investigate offerings by  
> > others (commercial) that we could suggest.    One of us will  
> > contact George to find out more about what he has in mind.
> >
> > Thanks for passing this along.    Also, just a reminder that we  
> > have an email called "" (which goes to our  
> > workshop team) where folks can request info like this.
> > Thanks
> >         Renee
> >
> > On Jun 22, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Linda Roos wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Renee,
> > > I am not sure if this is a question for you or someone else so  
> > > please point me in the appropriate direction if this falls out of  
> > > your scope.  George Loftus asked me about a class that teaches  
> > > people about transferring large data sets.  He mentioned that  
> > > networking people from Brown had asked about this and that FTP  
> > > seems inadequate for their needs.  There seemed to be enough  
> > > interest in this subject in the northeast that they would like to  
> > > have a class for NEREN or perhaps NOX members.  Yes, the subject  
> > > is a little vague and I would be happy to put you or someone else  
> > > in contact with George or the person asking about this, if that  
> > > would be helpful.  Thanks.
> > > Linda