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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