Argus Instrumentation of the GLORIAD R&E Network for Improved Measurement Monitoring and Security,
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The Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD: www.gloriad.org) is one of the world's major research and education (R&E) networks circling the northern hemisphere and providing multiple 10 Gbps circuits for advanced international research collaborations. Supported (since 1998) with nearly $20M by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and roughly $220M from international partners in Russia China Korea Egypt India Singapore Canada Netherlands and the Nordic countries GLORIAD provides both production and testbed network services enabling scientists educators and students to collaborate at high speeds and utilizing today's most advanced cyberinfrastructure services. The presentation will introduce GLORIAD's efforts to instrument using Argus (www.qosient.com/argus) to address collaborative management of the global network by (1) improving detailed awareness of network utilization; (2) providing quality end-to-end performance metrics on millions of daily flows; (3) collecting and analyzing data addressing appropriate use of R&E networks. The talk will focus on collection storage analysis and visualization of Argus-based flow data and how this data is used for improved operations and for improving end-to-end performance of R&E networks. The talk will briefly describe the role of various open-source software tools used - beginning with the family of Argus tools and including other tools such as Netmap "modern perl/poe" MySQL SQLite Memcached Gearman Livecode as well as the ZeroMQ messaging library. It will include focus on how to capture full (non-sampled) flow data at 10 Gbps using inexpensive network interface cards and commodity Intel/freebsd (or /linux) servers. The talk will describe the topology of GLORIAD's Argus-based measurement infrastructure data gathering and storage technologies analytic tools developed in partnership with Argus and Cisco Systems Inc. and its near-real-time visualization tools such as the GLORIAD Earth (http://www.gloriad.org/dvnoc). The presentation will further address how the new analysis capabilities are transforming how GLORIAD manages global cyberinfrastructure as a shared globally distributed collaborate enterprise.