API Application Programming Interface CERN Conseil European pour la Recherche

Network monitoring is becoming essential to be able to support network infrastructure and grid middleware information for eScience users. We are collaborating with groups from UKERNA, DANTE, Internet2 and SLAC to provide a platform from which future networks, and specifically Grid enabled networks can produce and consume information about the network itself. By installing Performance Measurement Points placed beside routers within collaborating networks, we also aim to present a more in depth picture of the internal status of the internet. Utilising Web Service and OGSA technologies, and implementing standards from the GGF, we will provide means by which network administrators, engineers and network users can query and produce information about the network state such that it enables both skilled and unskilled users to quickly and efficiently identify potential bottlenecks in a complete end-to-end system. By exposing the performance capabilities of the network to Grid applications, the UCL Network Centre of Excellence will provide a means whereby network users and grid applications can significantly improve the likelihood that Grid applications can operate at peak performance and thereby advance the productivity of academic researchers around the globe