Network challenge MAXIMUM AG Event...

Rick Stevens stevens at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Nov 3 14:32:18 CST 2000


Tony, these are good questions.. we will try to figure
out what is allowable once we get things up on the show floor.


--Rick

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Tony Rimovsky wrote:

> This sounds like a great try for an award.
> 
> One thing that jumps to mind: If you are planning on participating, please, 
> Please, PLEASE warn your networking groups.  If we do this in a single room 
> (one multicast address) then every bit that makes it to dallas for the 
> contest will also go to every multicast receiver in that room.
> 
> I'll go ahead and warn vBNS and Abilene.  :)
> 
> Rick -- is it permissible within the rules to do this as multiple 
> streams?  ie., can we spread the load across several venues and have the 
> aggregate at Dallas count towards the contests?  It will help spread the 
> load out at the campus sites.  One site I am worried about, for example, is 
> ACCESS-DC.  If they participate, I fully expect this to saturate their DS3 
> if they see all of the traffic.  I am even starting to worry about the 
> nodes 100bT connections.
> 
> 
> 
> At 08:12 PM 11/2/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi AGsters,
> >
> >I wanted to send a follow up note to Terry's email about the SC2000 
> >Network Challenge.
> >
> >We have signed the Access Grid up as one of the four or five applications 
> >at SC that will be trying to MAX OUT the networks.  The SCInet crew and 
> >the judges from the Network Challenge will be measuring the bandwidth used 
> >for the AG from noon on Tuesday to noon on Weds.  Therefore we would like 
> >to try to some very high-bandwidth sessions on the AG network during the 
> >monitoring time..
> >
> >We will have the AG nodes at ANL and in the ANL booth at SC up during this 
> >time and are scheduling some high-resolution video experiments and some 
> >Voyager playback experiments.. We would like to invite the entire AG 
> >community to actively participate in this Network Challenge. It would very 
> >cool to try to set a record for simultaneous AG node connections and 
> >number of video streams.  More details will be sent to the list as we 
> >learn more about how this is going to work..
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >--Rick
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 




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