This free hands-on workshop provides cyberinfrastructure (CI) engineers with an introduction to tools and techniques for the design, implementation, and monitoring of high-throughput networks and science demilitarized zones (Science DMZs). Each attendee will have full control of equipment pods emulating internetworks and tools (see figures below) to learn and test TCP-related issues, perfSONAR nodes distributed across networks, and Bro-based Intrusion Detection.
Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, attendees will:
Network Tools and Protocols:
Bro/Zeek:
perfSONAR:
Use tools and techniques for measuring performance
Describe Bro operations
Describe the operation of perfSONAR and use perfSONAR GUI to configure regular tests
Test Linux systems on emulated Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Manage and automate Bro instances
Analyze perfSONAR results on a variety of scenarios with injected packet loss and latency
Measure the performance of different TCP congestion control algorithms (Reno, HTCP, BBR) on high-throughput (10 Gbps) high-latency (varying parameters) networks
Instrument Bro for network forensics
Use pScheduler’s CLI to schedule tests
Measure the impact of parallel streams and maximum segment size (MSS) on throughput
Visualize measurement data using MaDDash
Understand and use the psConfig Web Administrator (PWA) to host groups and tests
The audience of this workshop includes IT educators, IT professionals, CI Engineers, High-Performance computing specialists, research systems administrators, security professionals.
Award Information
This activity is supported by NSF awards 1829698 and 1822567. Link to Official Webpage: NSF-1829698 and NSF-1822567
Pre-requisites
Attendees are required to bring their own laptops.
Agenda
Time
DAY 1: Monday, July 22 - University of South Carolina
Topic
Hands-on vLabs: measuring metrics in multi-domain networks with perfSONAR (PDF)
Jorge Crichigno (UofSC), Jose Gomez (UofSC)
4:15 - 4:45
Panel: Best practices, DTNs, research networks, perfSONAR
Moderator: Nasir Ghani (University of South Florida - USF). Panel: Paul Sagona (UofSC), Damian Clarke (Alabama A&M), F. Alex Feltus (Clemson), Jason Boryk (UofSC)
4:45 - 5:00
Questions, wrap-up day one
Jorge Crichigno (UofSC), Jason Zurawski (ESnet)
Time
DAY 2: Tuesday, July 23 - University of South Carolina
Topic
Presenter
8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00
The Cyberinfrastructure at National Laboratories (PDF)
Steve Tibrea (Savannah River National Laboratory - SRNL)