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Our involvement and reputation in TCP performance measurements have also lead the way to collaborate with Microsoft on their next generation Operating System Vista.
Having been approached initiated by Microsoft to help evaluate their high performance TCP stack and their Compound-TCP congestion control algorithm; we have finalised our initial report into the deployment impact of using CTCP in production environments.
We also helped to identify and aid the testing of numerous added features to aid the performance of the delay-based congestion control algorithm based on experiences on both long and short distance high speed Internet paths.
An important aspect of being able to both understand and diagnose network performance problems is the unification of reporting formats and the understanding of tool performance on the Internet.
SLAC has recently started close collaboration with both Internet2 and ESnet to help develop and expand the functionalities of the international PerfSONAR collaboration.
Having had gained much momentum over the last few months due to its open-source, open-community, open-standards based ethos of network monitoring, SLAC were delighted to help contribute our network analysis skills and experience to apply the PerfSONAR technology to production systems like that of the LHC project.
We aim to apply much of our existing analysis frameworks to benefit the PerfSONAR project; including that of event detection, event diagnosis and alerts.