perfSONAR is an infrastructure for network performance monitoring, making it easier to solve end-to-end performance problems on paths crossing
several networks.
perfSONAR contains a set of services delivering performance measurements in a federated environment. These services act as an intermediate layer, between the
performance measurement tools and the diagnostic or visualization applications. This layer is aimed at making and exchanging performance measurements between
networks, using well-defined protocols.
SCinet, the high-performance network built to support SC07, used perfSONAR to expose performance monitoring information for conference participants and network
engineers. The performance information monitored by perfSONAR at SC07 was visualized in several ways:
perfOMeter A web-based network speedometer for both live and historical data
Google Maps A geographical view of network performance
perfAdmin An administrative tool for managing perfSONAR deployments
perfSONAR-UI A Java client capable of supplying various network visualizations
URL:
http://events.internet2.edu/2007/sc07/
www.perfsonar.net
Collaborators:
USA:
Internet2
Fermilab
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indiana University
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
University of Delaware
ESnet
Open Grid Forum
Europe:
GΙANT2
Brazil:
Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP)
