ESnet Testbed: Published Results

Publications

The ESnet Testbed was used for results in the following peer reviewed published/accepted papers:

2017

Liang Zhang, Wenji Wu, Phil DeMar, Eric Pouyoul, “mdtmFTP and its Evaluation on ESNET's SDN Testbed”, The Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2017. (accepted, and to be published)

2016

“Improving network performance on multicore systems: Impact of core affinities on high throughput flows" Nathan Hanford, Vishal Ahuja, Matthew Farrens, Dipak Ghosal, Mehmet Balman, Brian Tierney, Future Generation Computer Systems, March, 2016.
"RAMSYS: Resource-Aware Asynchronous Data Transfer with Multicore SYStems", T Li, Y Ren, D Yu, S Jin - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Oct. 2016
“mdtmFTP and its Evaluation on ESNET's SDN Testbed”, Liang Zhang, Wenji Wu, Phil DeMar, Eric Pouyoul, The 3rd International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) 2016, in conjunction with SC16, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2016.
“Advance Reservation Access Control Using Software-Defined Networking and Tokens”, J. Chung, E. Jung, R. Kettimuthu, N. Rao, I. Foster, R. Clark, H. Owen, The 3rd International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) 2016, in conjunction with SC16, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2016.
“Enabling Intent to Configure Scientific Networks for High Performance Demands”, M Kiran, E Pouyoul, A Mercian, B Tierney, C Guok, I Monga, The 3rd International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) 2016, in conjunction with SC16, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2016.

2015

A low-cost methodology for profiling the power consumption of network equipment. A. Francini, S. Fortune, T. Klein, M. Ricca, IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2015

2014

“Analysis of the effect of core affinity on high-throughput flows”, Nathan Hanford, Vishal Ahuja, Matthew Farrens, Dipak Ghosal, Mehmet Balman, Eric Pouyoul, Brian Tierney, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Network-Aware Data Management (NDM '14), November 16, 2014.
A Network Management System for Handling Scientific Data Flows, Zhenzhen Yan, Chris Tracy, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Tian Jin, Zhengyang Liu, Journal of Network and Systems Management, October 11, 2014.
Cluster-to-Cluster Data Transfer with Data Compression over Wide-Area Networks, Eun-Sung Jung, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, and Venkatram Vishwanath, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Article in Press, Sep. 2014.

Lockless Hash Tables with Low False Negatives, Jordi Ros-Giralt, Alan Commike, Robert Rotsted, Patrick Clancy, Ann Johnson, Richard Lethin, In IEEE Conference on High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC), Waltham, MA, USA, IEEE, September, 2014.

A Low-Cost Methodology for Profiling the Energy Consumption of Network Equipment, Marco Ricca, Andrea Francini, Steven Fortune, and Thierry Klein, Bell Labs Technical Journal, March 2014 Data Analytics issue, Vol. 19, No. 1.
Scaling Bandwidth Estimation to High Speed Networks (poster/extended abstract), Q. Yin, J. Kaur, F.D. Smith, PAM 2014, Los Angeles, CA., March 2014.

2013

On How to Provision Virtual Circuits for Network-Redirected Large-Sized, High-Rate Flows, Z. Yan, M. Veeraraghavan, C. Tracy, C. Guok, International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, vol. 6, no. 3 & 4, Dec. 2013.
Toward optimizing disk-to-disk transfer on 100G networks. Eun-Sung Jung, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, and Venkatram Vishwanath, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) 2013.
On causes of GridFTP transfer throughput variance, Zhengyang Liu, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Jianhui Zhou, Jason Hick and Yee-Ting Li. 3rd International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management (NDM13), in conjunction with SC'13.
Efficient Wide Area Data Transfer Protocols for 100 Gbps Networks and Beyond, Ezra Kissel, Martin Swany, Brian Tierney and Eric Pouyoul. 3rd International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management (NDM13), in conjunction with SC'13.
End-to-End Data Movement Using MPI-IO Over Routed Terabits Infrastructures, Geoffroy Vallee, Scott Atchley, Youngjae Kim and Galen Shipman. 3rd International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management (NDM13), in conjunction with SC'13.
Characterizing the Impact of End-System Affinities On the End-to-End Performance of High-Speed Flows, Nathan Hanford, Vishal Ahuja, Mehmet Balman, Matthew Farrens, Dipak Ghosal, Eric Pouyoul and Brian Tierney. 3rd International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management (NDM13), in conjunction with SC'13.
Research Activities at Fermilab for Big Data Movement, Parag Mhashilkar, Wenji Wu, Hyun Woo Kim, Gabriele Garzoglio, Dave Dykstra, Marko Slyz, Phil DeMar, Poster session, Super Computing 2013
Big Data Over a 100G Network at Fermilab, Gabriele Garzoglio, Parag Mhashilkar, Hyunwoo Kim, Dave Dykstra, Marko Slyz, 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), Amsterdam, 2013
An Assessment of Power-Load Proportionality in Network Systems, Marco Ricca, Andrea Francini, Steven Fortune, and Thierry Klein, Third IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT Sustainability (SustainIT 2013), Palermo, Italy, October 30-31 2013. (Best Paper Award)
Design and Performance Evaluation of NUMA-aware RDMA-based End-to-end Data Transfer Systems, Yufei Ren, Tan Li, Dantong Yu , Shudong Jin, Thomas Robertazzi, IEEE/ACM Supercomuting 2013.
Traffic Engineering of High-Rate Large-Sized Flows, Tian Jin, Chris Tracy, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Zhenzhen Yan, IEEE HPSR 2013, Jul, 8-11, 2013, Taipei, Taiwain.
Design and Testbed Evaluation of RDMA-based Middleware for High-performance Data Transfer Applications, Yufei Ren, Tan Li, Dantong Yu, Shudong Jin, Thomas Robertazzi, Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 86, Issue 7, July 2013
Optimizing Large Data Transfers over 100Gbps Wide Area Networks, Anupam Rajendran, Parag Mhashilkar, Hyunwoo Kim, Dave Dykstra, Gabriele Garzoglio and Ioan Raicu, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2013. (PDF)
On how to provision Quality of Service (QoS) for large dataset transfers, Z. Yan, M. Veeraraghavan, C. Tracy, and C. Guok, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ), Apr. 21-26, 2013. (PDF)

2012

Yufei Ren, Tan Li, Dantong Yu, Shudong Jin, Thomas Robertazzi, Brian L. Tierney, Eric Pouyoul, “Protocols for Wide-Area Data-intensive Applications: Design and Performance Issues”, ACM/IEEE international Conference For High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Proceedings of IEEE Supercomputing 2012, November 12, 2012. (PDF)
Zhengyang Liu, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Zhenzhen Yan, Chris Tracy, Jing Tie, Ian Foster, John Dennis, Jason Hick, Yee-Ting Li, Wei Yang, "On Using Virtual Circuits for GridFTP Transfers", Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international Conference For High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12), November 12, 2012. (PDF)
Brian Tierney, Ezra Kissel, Martin Swany, Eric Pouyoul, “Efficient Data Transfer Protocols for Big Data”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on eScience, IEEE, October 9, 2012 (PDF).
Zhenzhen Yan, Chris Tracy, and Malathi Veeraraghavan, A Hybrid Network Traffic Engineering System, Proceedings of the IEEE 13th Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR). June 2012, Belgrade, Serbia. (PDF)
Mehmet Balman, Eric Pouyoul, Yushu Yao, E. Wes Bethel Burlen Loring, Prabhat, John Shalf, Alex Sim, and Brian L. Tierney, Experiences with 100Gbps Network Applications, The Fifth International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC 2012), June 2012 (PDF)
Yufei Ren, Tan Li, Dantong Yu, Shudong Jin, Thomas Robertazzi, Middleware Support for RDMA-based Data Transfer, Cloud Computing High-Performance Grid and Cloud Computing Workshop, May 2012
G. Garzolglio, D. Dykstra, P. Mhashilkar and H. Kim, Identifying gaps in Grid middleware on fast networks with the Advanced Network Initiative, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2012), May 2012 (PDF)
H Pi, I Sfiligoi, F Wüerthwein, and D Bradley, Data Transfer Test with 100 Gpbs Network for Open Science Grid (LHC) Application, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2012), May 2012

Posters

The ESnet Testbed was used for results in the following peer reviewed published/accepted posters:

M. Balman, MemzNet: Memory-Mapped Zero-copy Network Channel for Moving Large Datasets over 100Gbps Networks, Poster presentation in ACM/IEEE international Conference For High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov 2012.

Articles

The ESnet Testbed was used for results in these experiments:

E. Kissel, C. Fang, Zettar zx Evaluation for ESnet DTNs
M. Balman, Streaming exascale data over 100Gbps networks, IEEE Computing Now Magazine, Oct 2012.
Narayan Desai, Driving a 100 Gigabit Network with OpenStack
Engineering mixed traffic on ANI testbed
A 100-Gigabit Highway for Science: Researchers Take a “Test Drive” on ANI Testbed

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