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LineA is a Brazilian National laboratory in Rio de Janiero. It was created to support the Brazilian participation in scientific experiments using data from large astronomical surveys - the Dark Energy Survey projects and Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. There is a requirement to download 2 Tbytes/year until 2017 from SLAC to LineA. This is ~ 500kbits/sec averaged over a year. The physicist customer at SLAC appears to be Wechsler, Risa H. <risa@slac.stanford.eduedu>.
At first glimpse the throughput required to SLAC seems pretty minimal. However from our monitoring of the connection from SLAC to LineA the performance does not look good. There is a lot of congestion at times as exhibited by massively elongated RTTs (factor of two going from 200ms to 400ms).
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NODENAME: ms01.linea.gov.br
IPADDRESS: 186.232.60.129
SITENAME: linea.gov.br
NICKNAME: BR.LINEA.GOV.N3
FULLNAME: Laboratorio Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia
LOCATION: Rua General Jose Cristino, 77 St. Kitts, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
COUNTRY: Brazil
CONTINENT: Latin America
LATANDLONG: -22.9035 -43.2096
PROJECTTYPE: NOT-SET
PINGSERVER: NOT-SET
TRACESERVER: NOT-SET
DATASERVER: NOT-SET
URL: http://www.linea.gov.br
CONTACTS: CiuffoAngelo Fausti Neto <angelofausti@linea.gov.br>
COMMENTS: Dark matter Search collaborator, add by Cottrell 6/19/2012.
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