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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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On Using Virtual Circuits for GridFTP Transfers

SESSION: Grid Computing

EVENT TYPE: Papers

TIME: 11:30AM - 12:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Jim Basney

AUTHOR(S):Zhengyang Liu, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Zhenzhen Yan, Chris Tracy, Jing Tie, Ian Foster, John Dennis, Jason Hick, Yee-Ting Li, Wei Yang

ROOM:355-D

ABSTRACT:
GridFTP transfer logs obtained from NERSC, SLAC, and NCAR, were analyzed. The goal of the analyses is to characterize these transfers and determine the suitability of dynamic virtual circuit (VC) service for these transfers instead of the currently used IP-routed service. Given VC setup overhead, the first analysis of the GridFTP transfer logs characterizes the duration of sessions. Of the NCAR-NICS sessions analyzed, 56% of sessions would have been long enough to be served with dynamic VC service. An analysis of transfer throughput across four paths, NCAR-NICS, SLAC-BNL, NERSC-ORNL and NERSC-ANL, shows significant variance. An analysis of the potential causes of this variance shows that server-related factors are more important than network-related factors. This is because most of the network links are lightly loaded, which implies that throughput variance is likely to remain unchanged with virtual circuits.

Chair/Author Details:

Jim Basney (Chair) - National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Zhengyang Liu - University of Virginia

Malathi Veeraraghavan - University of Virginia

Zhenzhen Yan - University of Virginia

Chris Tracy - Energy Sciences Network

Jing Tie - University of Chicago

Ian Foster - University of Chicago

John Dennis - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Jason Hick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Yee-Ting Li - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Wei Yang - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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On Using Virtual Circuits for GridFTP Transfers

SESSION: Grid Computing

EVENT TYPE:

TIME: 11:30AM - 12:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Jim Basney

AUTHOR(S):Zhengyang Liu, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Zhenzhen Yan, Chris Tracy, Jing Tie, Ian Foster, John Dennis, Jason Hick, Yee-Ting Li, Wei Yang

ROOM:355-D

ABSTRACT:
GridFTP transfer logs obtained from NERSC, SLAC, and NCAR, were analyzed. The goal of the analyses is to characterize these transfers and determine the suitability of dynamic virtual circuit (VC) service for these transfers instead of the currently used IP-routed service. Given VC setup overhead, the first analysis of the GridFTP transfer logs characterizes the duration of sessions. Of the NCAR-NICS sessions analyzed, 56% of sessions would have been long enough to be served with dynamic VC service. An analysis of transfer throughput across four paths, NCAR-NICS, SLAC-BNL, NERSC-ORNL and NERSC-ANL, shows significant variance. An analysis of the potential causes of this variance shows that server-related factors are more important than network-related factors. This is because most of the network links are lightly loaded, which implies that throughput variance is likely to remain unchanged with virtual circuits.

Chair/Author Details:

Jim Basney (Chair) - National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Zhengyang Liu - University of Virginia

Malathi Veeraraghavan - University of Virginia

Zhenzhen Yan - University of Virginia

Chris Tracy - Energy Sciences Network

Jing Tie - University of Chicago

Ian Foster - University of Chicago

John Dennis - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Jason Hick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Yee-Ting Li - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Wei Yang - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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