Research Projects
The PSC Networking group is actively involved in research to promote the synergy between high performance computing and modern networking technologies.
Networking tools, software, and information
- High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP
- Maximize the performance of secure copying and connections between hosts on a high-performance network.
- NPAD/pathdiag
- Automatic diagnostic server for troubleshooting end-systems and last-mile network problems.
- Enabling High Performance Data Transfers
- TCP performance tuning
- "TCP Performance Tuning": presentation by Jamshid Mahdavi at the High Performance Data Networking conference at Northwestern University, 4/97
- "TCP Performance Tuning": presentation by Jeffrey Semke at the vBNS Techs workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, 5/98
- Poll-Switch - SNMP poll a layer-2 device
- Retrieving host and port information from a layer-2 switch running an SNMP agent.
- Mac-Scan
- Scan hosts on a VLAN or network for vulnerabilities
Historical tools, software, and information
- SAMI (NIMI)
- Creating a Secure and Accountable Measurement Infrastructure
- TCP Rate-Halving
- An algorithm to adjust the congestion window which sustains the self-clocking of TCP and avoids bursts.
- Automatic TCP Buffer Tuning
- Allowing TCP to tune its own buffers to suit the network path and to adjust for limited memory.
- Experimental TCP Selective Acknowledgment Implementations
- PSC supported TCP Implementations
- SACK
- FACK
- Automatic Buffer Tuning
- TCP Friendly
- Information about TCP-friendly congestion control for rate-based applications.
- Internet Performance and IP Provider Metrics
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- Draft Connectivity Metric for the IETF IPPM working group.
- Traceroute Reno (TReno): TReno (Traceroute Reno) is a networking tool designed to test network performance under a load similar to that of TCP.
- traceroute
- Source code for modifications to traceroute. These modifications include, among other things, options MTU discovery and statistics gathering.