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Hi Duncan, well originally it was to measure what the storage was seeing. We never plugged perfsonar in the central router, always to a rack switch. cheers alessandra On 09/12/2019 14:28, Duncan Rand wrote: > Hi Alessandra > > The point of perfSONAR is to measure WAN network characteristics up to > the maximum available: > > https://www.perfsonar.net/about/what-is-perfsonar/ > > cheers > Duncan > > On 09/12/2019 10:19, Alessandra Forti wrote: >> I there a reason for these huge specs? Shouldn't perfsonar measure >> what the actual storage does? This seems to be aimed at measuring >> only the WAN. >> >> Is this what we are doing now? >> >> cheers >> alessandra >> >> On 06/12/2019 10:07, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: >>> Hi Matt, >>> >>> On 05/12/2019 11:00, Matt Doidge wrote: >>>> >>>> Our vendor came back to us asking why we were specifying AMD over >>>> Intel >>> >>> I can understand your vendor. You don't need the best AMD to get a >>> box that delivers very close to 100 Gbps. The vendor might be >>> willing to try best price. Or to dump Intel on you, given that >>> >>> the whole world has gone AMD-mad. >>> >>> >>> Anyway I think that the first spec that Duncan circulated was based >>> on Intel. Based on what we (at Jisc) and ESnet have tested. >>> >>> Raul >>> >>> ######################################################################## >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the TB-SUPPORT list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=TB-SUPPORT&A=1 >> > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the TB-SUPPORT list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=TB-SUPPORT&A=1 -- Inference: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning Respect is a rational process. \\// For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason. (U. Eco) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TB-SUPPORT list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=TB-SUPPORT&A=1