Project progress meeting

• Jan 27-28, 2010 at LBNL
• Meeting info
• 1/27 meeting room 54-130B
• 1/28 meeting room 50B-4205
• Visitor info: http://www.lbl.gov/visitor-info.html
• Attendees: Dimitrios Katramatos, Xin Liu, Dantong Yu, Mehmet Balman, Junmin Gu, Vijaya Natarajan, Arie Shoshani, Alex Sim
• Discussion items
• Interface between TeraPaths and BeStMan
• add a function for updating flow info, max bandwidth and completion time, for a reservation request
  mainly the port numbers for connections when available
• Prototype testbed
• BNL and U. Mich - starting June 1, 2010
• Discussions on project environment and deployment plan/packaging
• Dantong will plan and send out
• Task plan adjustments if any
• Concrete developmental plan for the next six months
• April 1, 2010 - interface implementation between bestman at LBNL and terapaths BNL
• June 1, 2010 - prototype testbed on BNL and U. Mich
• Testing goals - end-to-end transfer with reserved bandwidth
• Basic test: small amount of data
• Scaling test: large amount of data with many files
• STAR in consulting mode (10/2010 - 12/2010)
• Test with multiple requests with different port information to modify TP reservation (1/2011 - )
• Research activities in StorNet
• Advance space reservation with the future starting time
• TeraPaths communication to OSCARS for multiple time windows
  BeStMan needs to adjust transfers for multiple windows as well
• Layer 3 support on OSCARS
• Subnet reservation on OSCARS