SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012
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Exploiting Network Parallelism for Improving Data Transfer Performance
SESSION: SCinet Research Sandbox Presentations
EVENT TYPE: SCinet Research Sandboxes
TIME: 9:10AM - 9:30AM
SESSION CHAIR: Brian L. Tierney
Presenter(s):Dan Gunter, Raj Kettimuthu, Ezra Kissel, Martin Swany, Jun Yi, Jason Zurawski
ROOM:155-F2
ABSTRACT:
Enormous progress has been made in networking to support scientific use cases. Research and Education (R&E) backbones, including the Energy Sciences Network and Internet2, provide general-purpose services to allocate dedicated bandwidth. Many applications including bulk data transfer can often achieve significantly higher performance from virtually loss-free dedicated links than from opportunistic use.
Bandwidth reservation introduces scheduling issues due to the relatively coarse grain of the allocations. Thus, links may appear full when in reality there may be multiple independent paths with aggregate available bandwidth to satisfy the request. Thus, applications may improve performance by using a combination of traditional "best effort" services and dynamic dedicated bandwidth with, e.g., OSCARS or Software Defined Networking (SDN). To meet this challenge, we propose using multiple paths for the same application transfer session. This may also facilitate performance with applications using multiple 10g NICs over 100g paths.
GridFTP is widely used for bulk data movement. GridFTP transfers usually create parallel TCP streams, often along the same network topology. Intelligent session layer overlays, such as the Phoebus/XSP infrastructure, enable access to WAN acceleration techniques and transparent use of dynamic networking technologies. Embedded NetLogger monitoring can detect whether disks or networks are the limiting segment.
The SCinet Research Sandbox will allow us to evaluate strategies that transparently map traffic to different paths, using available SDN capabilities. We will monitor the performance using our monitoring architecture called Periscope, and dynamically adapt the use of multipath capabilities based on knowledge of the end-to-end bottleneck.
Chair/Presenter Details:
Brian L. Tierney (Chair) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dan Gunter - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Raj Kettimuthu - Argonne National Laboratory
Ezra Kissel - University of Delaware
Martin Swany - Indiana University
Jun Yi - Argonne National Laboratory
Jason Zurawski - Internet2
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Exploiting Network Parallelism for Improving Data Transfer Performance
SESSION: SCinet Research Sandbox Presentations
EVENT TYPE:
TIME: 9:10AM - 9:30AM
SESSION CHAIR: Brian L. Tierney
Presenter(s):Dan Gunter, Raj Kettimuthu, Ezra Kissel, Martin Swany, Jun Yi, Jason Zurawski
ROOM:155-F2
ABSTRACT:
Enormous progress has been made in networking to support scientific use cases. Research and Education (R&E) backbones, including the Energy Sciences Network and Internet2, provide general-purpose services to allocate dedicated bandwidth. Many applications including bulk data transfer can often achieve significantly higher performance from virtually loss-free dedicated links than from opportunistic use.
Bandwidth reservation introduces scheduling issues due to the relatively coarse grain of the allocations. Thus, links may appear full when in reality there may be multiple independent paths with aggregate available bandwidth to satisfy the request. Thus, applications may improve performance by using a combination of traditional "best effort" services and dynamic dedicated bandwidth with, e.g., OSCARS or Software Defined Networking (SDN). To meet this challenge, we propose using multiple paths for the same application transfer session. This may also facilitate performance with applications using multiple 10g NICs over 100g paths.
GridFTP is widely used for bulk data movement. GridFTP transfers usually create parallel TCP streams, often along the same network topology. Intelligent session layer overlays, such as the Phoebus/XSP infrastructure, enable access to WAN acceleration techniques and transparent use of dynamic networking technologies. Embedded NetLogger monitoring can detect whether disks or networks are the limiting segment.
The SCinet Research Sandbox will allow us to evaluate strategies that transparently map traffic to different paths, using available SDN capabilities. We will monitor the performance using our monitoring architecture called Periscope, and dynamically adapt the use of multipath capabilities based on knowledge of the end-to-end bottleneck.
Chair/Presenter Details:
Brian L. Tierney (Chair) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dan Gunter - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Raj Kettimuthu - Argonne National Laboratory
Ezra Kissel - University of Delaware
Martin Swany - Indiana University
Jun Yi - Argonne National Laboratory
Jason Zurawski - Internet2
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