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| Chairs: |
Eric
Boyd <eboyd@internet2.edu> Richard Hughes-Jones <R.Hughes-Jones@man.ac.uk> Mark Leese <M.J.Leese@dl.ac.uk> |
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| Web Site: | Home Page : http://www-didc.lbl.gov/NMWG/
Email Archive: http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/nm-wg/maillist.html (email on the old perf-wg list is archived at: http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/perf-wg/maillist.html) |
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Completed Documents:
"A Hierarchy of Network Performance Characteristics for Grid Applications and Services," (Approved as a "Proposed Recommendation", July 2, 2004)
Work In Progress:
New!
Developer's guide document (12/20/2004)
Network Measurement Tool classification
Use Cases: Sample Network Monitoring Query Requests
Obsolete? documents:
Network Measurements Publication Profile
Network Measurements Publication Profile (old version, before reorganizing based on input from CIM)
NMWG GGF9 agenda, minutes, and slides .
NMWG GGF8 agenda.
NMWG GGF8 minutes for Wednesday.
NMWG GGF8 minutes for Thursday.
The performance of most grid applications is dependent on the performance of the networks forming the grid. The Network Measurements Working Group (NMWG) identifies network metrics (aka characteristics) useful to grid applications and middleware, and develops standard mechanisms to describe and publish these characteristics to the Grid.
The NMWG focuses on characteristics of interest to grid applications and works in collaboration with, other standards groups such as the IETF IPPM WG and the Internet2 End-to-end initiative. The NMWG will determine which of the network characteristics are relevant to Grid applications, and pursue standardization of the attributes required to describe these characteristics.
The first product of the NMWG will be a document categorizing the characteristics in use by network monitoring tools. This document will establish a dictionary that can be used by tools to publish their results. The second product will be a document recommending the XMLSchema to be used to publish the detailed attributes for these characteristics.
| July 2002 | Begin work on tools classification |
| Oct 2002 | Near-final draft of performance characteristics hierarchy document to GFSG |
| Mar 2003 | Finish work on tools classification web page (Done.) |
| Mar 2003 | Begin work on schema document |
| Apr 2003 | Submit performance characteristics document to GFSG (Done.) |
| Nov 2003 | First draft of schema document (Done.) |
| June 2004 | Submit schema document to GFSG |