Net100 history at ORNL

Recent Net100/Web100 work at ORNL

• 10/1/04 project funding ended
• 7/21/04 WADlite testing
• 7/18/04 TCP Westwood tests (plus ns)
• 7/14/04 Cray X1 net100 tests, IP over fiberchannel, channel bonding
• 7/8/04 Net100 kernel to linux/ATM/GPS testnet
• 6/28/04 UDT review
• 6/22/04 UDP report preparation
• 6/14/04 NISTNet upgrade, summer student testing
• 6/5/04 Vegas and FAST testing
• 5/21/04 TCP Westwood evaluation
• 5/15/04 WADlite testing
• 4/30/04 FAST source available, initial study and testing
• 4/12/04 TCP Vegas tests with CERN
• 3/25/04 brief look at UDT and DCP
• 3/21/04 WADlite extensions for probing
• 3/11/04 re-testing of SGI Altix and Cray X1 Net100
• 3/1/04 Florence Fowler retires
• 2/22/04 jumbo tests discover MTU negotiation problem, router misconfigured
• 2/15/04 wad-lite implementation
• 1/28/04 proposal preparation
• 1/22/04 Vegas testing and wad-lite development
• 1/15/04 prepare tech report on UDP transports
• 1/8/04 DOE/MICS ORNL net review
• 1/5/04 User-mode linux and net100 kernel mod evaluation
• 12/1/03 new Net100 box jumbo GigE outside firewall, new NistNET boxes
• 11/10/03 SC03 Net100 poster and handouts
• 10/27/03 Vegas with hires timer
• 10/15/03 Vegas/Net100 testing
• 9/18/03 net100 kernel on SGI Altix
• 9/17/03 net100 vegas tests -- txq probelms avoided, hi-res time
• 9/4/03 FAST-like tests over atou
• 9/1/03 wide area jumbo frame testing
• 8/28/03 TCP Vegas into 2.4.21 with Web100
• 8/18/03 DOE review
• 8/14/03 Net100 talk to ORNL
• 8/8/03 Caltech FAST kernel
• 8/1/03 UDP FOBS/Tsunami/Sabul testing
• 7/21/03 Cray X1 net100 kernel, 4x improvement
• 6/17/03 add droptail Q to NISTNet
• 5/1/03 scalable TCP ported to ns-2 and Net100 kernel (results)
• 4/16/03 UDP transport tests Europe/US
• 4/10/03 DOE transport workshop
• 4/8/03 preliminary Cray X1/web100 assessment
• 3/25/03 Network Mag. article: End-to-end Performance on the Internet
• 3/20/03 UDP transport analysis
• 3/17/03 Net100 tuning gridFTP
• 3/11/03 Web100 upgrade
• 2/18/03 Iperf/web100 PAM 2003 paper Measuring end-to-end bandwidth with Iperf using Web100
• 2/14/03 Cisco netflow/cflowd/nfstat deploy and testing
• 2/5/03 ESnet ESCC Net100 presentation
• 1/13/03 kelly scalable TCP exerperiments (atou)
• 1/10/03 tsunami/sabul/RUDP/FOBS test and evaluation
• 1/9/03 reordering studies (linux,autotuning) lbl to psc
• 12/11/02 slow-start increment (atou results, ns, wad)
• 12/6/02 wadsu.py testing
• 12/4/02 iperf/web100 paper slow-start duration
• 12/2/02 DSACK/atou development
• 11/26/02 vegas/atou testing
• 11/19/02 SC02 Net100 talk/paper and demos
• 11/14/02 testing of Web100 autotuning
• 11/12/02 continuing evaluation of SABUL, Tsunami, FOBS
• 11/11/02 upgrade Java bandwidth tester
• 11/5/02 high speed i/o/jumbo gige Net100 box added
• 11/2/02 NTAF generated test suites of Floyd extensions
• 10/24/02 del ACK and reordering preliminary analysis
• 10/21/02 PNNL Net100 briefing
• 10/15/02 Internet2 PSC-CERN tuning tests
• 10/14/02 continued vegas (atou) testing (network and nistnet)
• 10/9/02 WAD tuning parallel and single stream gridFTP
• 10/7/02 added snapshot to python wad and tracer
• 9/26/02 testing latest Web100 release (new API)
• 9/13/02 wadsu.py --event driven python wad testing, atou rto tests
• 9/10/02 vegas experiments with atou and floyd slowstart
• 9/3/02 add DSACK to atou
• 8/26/02 gridftp server on firebird, Floyd AIMD in kernel, WAD select
• 8/23/02 NTAF data used for WAD tuning
• 8/19/02 SCNM tcpdump's of bulk flows
• 8/13/02 DOE network planning meeting
• 8/8/02 ns simulation of k streams vs k-equivalent single stream
• 8/7/02 preliminary analysis of Shalunov's proposed virtual MTU
• 8/1/02 net100/web100 meetings
• 7/26/02 floyd aimd dynamic tuning in WAD
• 7/15/02 reordering tuning (atou results)
• 7/3/02 use Vegas gamma to initiate Floyd slow start with atou
• 6/26/02 WAD tune single and parallel stream gridftp ORNL-LBNL
• 6/25/02 gridftp test to LBL, floyd's ns scripts for AIMD and slowstart
• 6/22/02 add WAD_MD code to linux kernel, now WAD can tune all of AIMD
• 6/20/02 add Floyd slow start to linux web100 kernel and WAD ( preliminary results)
• 6/14/02 install gridftp client on firebird
• 6/13/02 Floyd stow start mods to atou and test ( preliminary results)
• 6/7/02 floyd aimd mods to atou, test ESnet and NISTnet ( preliminary results)
• 5/22/02 web100 patches applied
• 5/15/02 web100 extensions to iperf (iperf100)
• 5/13/02 tool testing: mping, pathrate 2.2
• 5/8/02 LBL SCNM box testing
• 5/4/02 parallel flows monitoring with python tracer
• 5/1/02 WAD tuning of additive increase and buffer sizes
• 4/26/02 SC2002 extended abstract "A TCP tuning daemon"
• 4/21/02 WAD tuning of parallel flows
• 4/15/02 slow-start duration studies
• 4/12/02 RTT bandwidth estimator added to atou (vegas like)
• 4/5/02 stateful WAD for adaptive/dynamic tuning of flows
• 4/2/02 testing PSC's new pathprobe tool
• 3/25/02 WAD tuning of parallel iperf transfers (NERSC/ORNL)
• 3/15/02 porting TCP Vegas to 2.4.17
• 2/22/02 TCP Vegas on linux 2.3.15 testing on NISTnet testbed
• 2/18/02 web100 with DRS testing in 2.4.16
• 2/4/02 web100 testing on 2.4.16, drs testing on upgraded NISTnet
• 1/30/02 Internet2 end-to-end workshop
• 1/17/02 begin evaluation of Feng's DRS patches
• 1/16/02 add netlogger to webd
• 1/14/02 attend SciDac PI meeting
• 1/20/02 deploy webd at other sites
• 1/2/02 test netlink web100 event notification
• 12/31/01 auto-tuning study, linux 2.4, WAD, using webd
• 12/26/01 WAD testing
• 12/21/01 draft SCTP info
• 11/26/01 deploy NISTnet
• 11/21/01 GigE on firebird
• 11/15/01 virtual MSS testing using atou
• 11/13/01 HSI/Web100 demos at SC2001
• 11/8/01 Net100 PI workshop, Denver
• 11/6/01 HSI tuning with web100 mothra/stingray (NERSC/ORNL)
• 11/1/01 NERSC linux (mothra) up with web100
• 10/29/01 tuning HSI transfer with web100
• 10/23/01 SCTP testing
• 10/22/01 NERSC linux box up
• 10/2/01 testing of bcp,bbftp, pftp (NERSC/ORNL)
• 10/1/01 install and test HSI on firebird
• 9/28/01 develop and test webd
• 9/24/01 install 2.4.9 on linux and test new Web100 release 0.3
• 9/11/01 installation of web100 at ORNL on viper and firebird
• 8/14/01 testing with LBL web100 box
• 7/24/01 Web100 workshop, Net100 workshop
• 6/27/01 testing with GigE interface, web100 validation with tcpdump's
• 6/26/01 testing with epaphus.slac.stanford.edu
• 5/31/01 testing web100 applet bandwidth tester
• 5/28/01 testing ttcp100
• 5/26/01, test with wombat.scd.ucar.edu and UT
• 5/24/01, install web100 0.2 build 20010514
• 5/10/01, discussions with Compaq/OSF about deploying Web100
• 3/*/01, prepare/submit Net100/Web100 proposal to DOE
• 3/21/01, install alpha0 release 0.1 build 20010228
• 2/19/01, install pre-alpha release (ORNL) 2000101115
• 2/2/01, discussions with IBM/AIX about deploying Web100

Links

• the Net100 project PSC/ORNL/LBL
• summary page on our bulk transfer work
• info on our almost TCP over UDP test harness
• Visit the network performance links page for RFC's and papers.

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