EJFAT prototype demonstrates proof of concept for connecting scientific instruments with remote high-performance computing for rapid data processing Scientists at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) clicked a button and held their collective breaths. Moments later, they exulted as a monitor showed steady saturation of their new 100 gigabit-per-second connection with raw data from a nuclear … Continue reading California Streamin’: Jefferson Lab, ESnet Achieve C...| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
By Bruce Mah, ESnet Planning & Architecture Group A recent post on Microsoft’s Networking blog, clickably titled “Three Reasons Why You Should Not Use iPerf3 on Windows,” caused a mini-kerfuffle in the world of network speed measurement and a lively discussion in the comments section. Although the post has since been updated with some important … Continue reading Why Doesn’t ESnet Support iperf3 on Windows?| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
The Advanced North Atlantic (ANA) collaboration has added three 400-Gbps spectrum circuits between exchange points in the U.S., U.K., and France, boosting ANA’s combined trans-Atlantic network capacity to 2.4 Tbps. READ MORE| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
Leading research and education (R&E) networking organizations Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), GÉANT, GlobalNOC at Indiana University, Internet2, and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have joined forces to form MetrANOVA, a consortium for Advancing Network Observation, Visualization, and Analysis. MetrANOVA’s goal is to develop and disseminate common network measurement and analysis tools, tactics, and techniques that … Continue reading New Consortium MetrANOVA to Create a Measureme...| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
The software automation system OSCARS, one of the key innovations powering ESnet’s high-speed network for Department of Energy–funded scientific research, has just gotten a major update: OSCARS 1.1, which is designed to take advantage of the capabilities offered by ESnet6, the latest iteration of the network. READ MORE| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
ESnet has released iperf-3.16, a significant new version of the open-source network performance measurement tool iperf3. Part of perfSONAR, iperf3 can also be used as a stand-alone tool for measuring network performance in general. The new version gives better insights into high-speed network behaviors. READ MORE| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
If the world’s scientific research networks transported people instead of data packets, in early June you would have seen a traffic spike transiting Tirana, Albania – the site of TNC23, the prestigious research and education networking conference put on by GÉANT. More than 800 participants from 70-plus countries, representing regional and national research and education … Continue reading ESnet and SURF Offer Hands-On Network Orchestration Lessons at TNC23| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
Among this summer’s cohort of 53 Experiences in Research high school interns are three from Hawai’i and two from the Bay Area who are working on similar but different network data visualization projects for ESnet. “Much of the things I am doing in the project were things I could not have imagined were in my … Continue reading ESnet’s EinR Summer Interns Are Visualizing Their Path to a STEM Career| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
Diagram of ESnet6’s peering points for the new Cloud Connect Service By Joshua Stewart, ESnet Part of managing a network dedicated to handling vast swaths of scientific data is also ensuring …| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
Twenty-five years ago Saturday, on August 3, 1999, IPv6 history was made: ESnet was issued its IPv6 production netblock, which is still in use today. The American Registry for Internet Number…| Light Bytes: Blogging for Science
