There is general interest in how these tests between sites go along with any problems encountered. Please keep Mark and myself in the loop with any results.
Also, please bear in mind any potential impacts on the wider network when running tests and keep your local networking contacts informed of upcoming tests.
Thanks,
Jeremy
On 26 Jun 2012, at 12:14, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> On 26/06/12 10:16, David Colling wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Surely this is a good test of several other good sites as well as
>> Imperial. So far we have only had an offer from Oxford. We have no real
>> idea how well this link will perform and we cannot (easily) use CMS
>> infrastructure as at the moment it is only on a test subnet. Once we
>> know this is working and is debugged we can move it into production.
>>
>> So any offers of help (especially from 10Gb/s sites)?
>
> QMUL is not a 10Gig site yet. We do have a pair of perfsonar nodes you can test against though.
>
> Chris
>
>>
>> Best,
>> david
>>
>> On 25/06/12 14:02, Simon Fayer wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We're looking to test our new network link here at Imperial which
>>> should be
>>> capable of up to 40Gbit/s. Are there any 10+Gbit/s connected sites
>>> which have
>>> iperf endpoints they'd be willing to let us test against? Does the Tier1
>>> make any provision for network testing endpoints?
>>>
>>> We're currently really just looking to do a few short (~a couple of
>>> minutes)
>>> tests just to check the link is working sensibly and doesn't have any
>>> unexpected bottlenecks.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Simon
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