TY - GEN
T1 - Testbed and experiments for high-performance networking
AU - Rao, Nageswara S.V.
AU - Hicks, Susan E.
AU - Poole, Stephen W.
AU - Newman, Paul
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - UltraScience Net is a network research testbed for supporting the development and testing of wide-area networking technologies for high-performance computing and storage systems. It provides dynamic, dedicated, high-bandwidth channels to support large data transfers, and also provides stable high-precision channels to support fine command and control operations. Its data-plane consists of 8,600 miles of crosscountry dual OC192 backbone, which can be dynamically provisioned at different bandwidths. Its out-of-band control-plane is implemented using hardware Virtual Private Network (VPN) devices. In terms of the testbed infrastructure, it demonstrated the following capabilities: (i) ability to build and operate national-scale switched network testbeds, (ii) provisioning of suites of 1 and 10 Gbps connections of various lengths up to 70,000 and 8,600 miles, respectively, through automated scripts, (iii) secure control-plane for signaling and management operations, and (iv) bandwidth scheduler for in-advance connection reservation and provisioning. A number of structured and systematic experiments were conducted on this facility for the following tasks: (i) performance analysis and peering of layer 1-3 connections and their hybrid concatenations, (ii) scalability analysis of 8Gbps InfiniBand (IB) transport over widearea connections of thousands of miles, (iii) diagnosis of TCP performance problems in using dedicated connections to supercomputers, (iv) detailed TCP performance analysis of wide-area application acceleration devices, and (v) TCP throughput improvements due to 10Gbps High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) devices.
AB - UltraScience Net is a network research testbed for supporting the development and testing of wide-area networking technologies for high-performance computing and storage systems. It provides dynamic, dedicated, high-bandwidth channels to support large data transfers, and also provides stable high-precision channels to support fine command and control operations. Its data-plane consists of 8,600 miles of crosscountry dual OC192 backbone, which can be dynamically provisioned at different bandwidths. Its out-of-band control-plane is implemented using hardware Virtual Private Network (VPN) devices. In terms of the testbed infrastructure, it demonstrated the following capabilities: (i) ability to build and operate national-scale switched network testbeds, (ii) provisioning of suites of 1 and 10 Gbps connections of various lengths up to 70,000 and 8,600 miles, respectively, through automated scripts, (iii) secure control-plane for signaling and management operations, and (iv) bandwidth scheduler for in-advance connection reservation and provisioning. A number of structured and systematic experiments were conducted on this facility for the following tasks: (i) performance analysis and peering of layer 1-3 connections and their hybrid concatenations, (ii) scalability analysis of 8Gbps InfiniBand (IB) transport over widearea connections of thousands of miles, (iii) diagnosis of TCP performance problems in using dedicated connections to supercomputers, (iv) detailed TCP performance analysis of wide-area application acceleration devices, and (v) TCP throughput improvements due to 10Gbps High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) devices.
KW - 10GigE WAN-PHY
KW - Bandwidth scheduler
KW - Control-plane
KW - Data-plane
KW - Dedicated channels
KW - HAIPE
KW - Infiniband
KW - Network testbed
KW - SONET
KW - WAN accelerators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885888965&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885888965
SN - 9783642178504
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 19
EP - 34
BT - Testbeds and Research Infrastructures - Development of Networks and Communities - 6th International Conference, TridentCom 2010, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities, TRIDENTCOM 2010
Y2 - 18 May 2010 through 20 May 2010
ER -