Workshop Details
- Dates: 16 – 17 April, 2018
- Location: NORDUnet Headquarters in Kastrup (near Copenhagen)
- Sponsors: NORDUnet (NORDUnet) and SURFnet (SURFnet)
- Venue: NORDUnet – Copenhagen/Kastrup
Workshop
- Workshop Agenda
- Google Doc for collecting Topics & Questions to cover in more depth (pending)
Tools
- Putty SSH Client for Windows
Download page (ssh, scp, sftp, agent, etc.)
putty.exe (64-bit ssh)
Workshop Goals
By the end of this workshop the participant will be able to:
- Understand selected use cases for using a FIONA/FIONette as a Data Transfer Node or Data Access Node
- Be able to deploy a FIONette node at their institution
- Install and configure perfSONAR tools including regular testing (throughput, latency / loss, traceroute)
- Install and configure GridFTP tools including regular disk-to-disk throughput testing
- Install and configure MaDDash visualization tool and Measurement Archive for storing test results
- Troubleshoot selected network issues using the pS toolkit and other tools
- Understand data movement performance analysis and visualization
- Understand scaling and tuning options for for optimal data flow, including
- BIOS / OS / FileSystem
- TCP/UDP network stack
- Single-stream vs Multiple-streams
- Larger flows
- Longer paths (with high Bandwidth Delay Products)
- Properly secure FIONA/FIONette devices
Target Audience
- Operational staff with responsibility for science engagement, e.g.:
- Cyberinfrastructure Engineers
- High Performance Computing Specialists
- Research Systems Administrators
- System Integration Engineers
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with the ScienceDMZ architectural model and related concepts
- Experience with an UNIX/Linux command line environment
- Basic understanding of TCP/IP and UDP protocols
- Basic UNIX/Linux System Administration skills and familiarity with Linux PC server hardware
- Basic Network Engineering skills and familiarity with modern routing and switching technologies
- Familiarity with the perfSONAR toolkit
Please note
- participants are required to bring a notebook computer
- participants should make their travel & lodging arrangements to allow them to be present in Copenhagen on 15 April
