At our second April 2002 meeting, Peter O'Neil from NCAR discussed the
Web100 and the
Net100
initiatives, which are aimed at utilizing up to 100 percent of
the available bandwidth on network for TCP/IP sessions.
Today, getting significant improvements in TCP/IP throughput
requires a detailed knowledge of TCP/IP and wizard-like skills
in tuning the protocol parameters. Peter's talk began by
taking us through some of the complications of this
tuning-- some of the work behind Web100-- and also some
alternative TCP/IP implementations aimed at improving throughput.
Acknowledging that it takes special skill for anyone to
attempt such an undertaking, the Net100 initiative hopes to
simplify the the process of optimizing throughput by providing
instrumentation into the TCP/IP stack from which automated
tools can observe protocol performance and make tuning decisions.
Peter's presentation slides are available here.
(pdf 1.5MB).
Sorry about the bullet-to-Yen character translation... we'll
work on it.
October 18, 2008
October 23:
Lustre & VirtualBox
Bryon Neitzel will discuss the Lustre File System
architecture, and Ginnie Wray will demonstrate
how to run the OpenSolaris OS with Sun's VirtualBox
virtualization software.
Book Giveaway
We'll be making room for new books on our book cart by
giving away some of our old security-related titles
at this meeting. Come grab a book!
Web Application Security
The writeup from our last meeting with presentation slides is available
in our meeting archive.
Future Meetings
Topics include:
Valgrind
Web GUI Programming
