perfSONAR Workshop Provides Essential Introduction to SEEREN2 Participants

Hands-on workshop for perfSONAR participants

The first ever perfSONAR “hands-on” workshop was held on 27 September 2006, as part of the SEEREN2 Summer School, in Heraklion, Greece. The workshop was conducted by Loukik Kudarimoti (DANTE), Roman Lapacz (PSNC) and Luchesar Iliev (ISTF), who introduced the work of the perfSONAR team to sixteen participants from across the Balkan area.

perfSONAR is an international initiative between GÉANT2, Internet2, ESnet and RNP. It is an infrastructure for network performance monitoring, making it easier to solve end-to-end performance problems on paths crossing several network domains. It contains a set of services delivering performance measurements in a multi-domain environment. The workshop provided an overview of the perfSONAR tools available to network researchers. A hands-on lab session guided participants around the perfSONAR UI visualisation tool, and successful installation of the perfSONAR 1.0 software.

 Loukik Kudarimoti said “The work of perfSONAR provides cutting edge tools for network engineers. Many of the participants had not heard of perfSONAR before, and the workshop provided an essential introduction to our activities. We hope that those who attended will share their knowledge with their organisations, and deploy the perfSONAR infrastructure on their own domains.”

The perfSONAR project is an ongoing effort. A development week will be held in Montpellier, France, in early November.

For further information and to view the presentations given, visit http://www.terena.nl/activities/seeren/programme3.html.

A full report on the SEEREN2 summer school can be found at http://www.terena.nl/news/fullstory.php?news_id=2008 and more on SEEREN2 is available at www.seeren.org

Visit the new-look perfSONAR website at www.perfsonar.net