1st Annual Advanced Summer Curriculum on Emerging Network Technologies (ASCENT 1999)

People

Director
- Wu Feng, feng@lanl.gov
Staff
- Ian Philp, philp@lanl.gov
- Mike Boorman, tmb@lanl.gov
- Annette Feng, afeng@lanl.gov
- Jeff Hay, jrhay@lanl.gov
- Fabrizio Petrini, fabrizio@lanl.gov

Student Participants

Name	School	Department
Darius Buntinas	Ohio State University	Computer & Information Science
Pacia Harper	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Computer Science
Kihwal Lee	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Computer Science
Peerapol Tinnakorsrisuphap	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Electrical & Computer Engg.
Dav Zimak	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Computer Science

Accomplishments

Network Traffic Characterization
- Identification of a better metric to measure traffic burstiness.
- Implementation of network tools to control traffic generation and to take network measurements based on the data produced by network-monitoring tools like tcpdump and remote monitors (RMONs).
- Publication in the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (to appear), April 2000: On the Burstiness of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in a Distributed Computing System.
High-Performance UDP/TCP
- Implementation of the RAPID protocol, a high-performance UDP protocol.
Multimedia
- Design of a multimedia datagram protocol (MDP) for the real-time delivery of video.
OS-Bypass Protocols
- Significant progress on the implementation and instrumentation of an OS-bypass protocol called ST (Scheduled Transfer), running Linux 2.2 over Myrinet.

Seminar Series

Organizer: Wu Feng

June 18, Ian Philp, Flow Control and Congestion Control over a High-Speed Network.
June 25, Ian Philp, The ST OS-Bypass Protocol.
July 2, Annette Feng, Statistical Background for Understanding Network Modeling.
July 8, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Probabilistic Modeling of Network Traffic.
July 15, Pacia Harper, The LANL Simulation of the Scheduled Transfer Protocol.
July 22, Wu Feng, Network Interface Cards as First-Class Citizens.
July 29, Kihwal Lee, Real-Time Video Transmission.
August 5, Dav Zimak, Experimental Analysis of TCP traffic on a LAN.
August 12, Darius Buntinas, Implementing ST on Linux 2.2 over Myrinet.

Organized Events

Organizer: Wu Feng

Sightseeing
- Cave of the Winds, June 1999.
- Window Rock, June 1999.
- Tsankawi Ruins, July 1999.
Hikes
- Jemez Falls & Macaulay Hot Springs, June 1999.
- San Antonio Hot Springs, July 1999.
- Santa Fe Baldy, July 1999.
- Gold Hill, August 1999.
- Wheeler Peak, August 1999.
Recreation & Entertainment
- Ballroom & Swing Dancing (Los Alamos on Mondays, Santa Fe on Tuesdays), all summer.
- Whitewater Rafting, June 1999.
- 4th of July Cookout & Fireworks, July 1999.
- Atomic Blast Ultimate Frisbee Tourney, July 1999.
- End-of-Summer Bash, August 1999.

For more information on ASCENT, contact Wu-chun Feng at feng@lanl.gov.

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