WP6 T1 is currently investigating how European NRENs support their user communities in making optimal use of their networks for large scale data transfers, including the use of Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs).
It would be very useful for us to get your feedback regarding your current practices and your interest to engage further with WP6 T1 on this topic (gn4-3-wp6-t1-dtn@lists.geant.org). Your feedback will be taken in consideration to redirect our future work.
GÉANT NREN Survey results:
Q1. Which (research) communities are you aware of that are moving large volumes of data across your network?
AENEAS project (https://www.aeneas2020.eu/)
Federated European Science Data Center (ESDC) to support the
astronomical community in achieving the scientific goals of the Square
Kilometer Array (SKA)
• Process (https://www.process-project.eu/)
Creating data applications for collaborative research (Exascale learning
on medical image data, SKA/LOFAR, Ancillary pricing for airline revenue
management, Agricultural Analysis based on Copernicus data)
• Fiona Pacific data exchange PRP (https://prp.ucsd.edu/); Petascale DTN
Project
Effort to improve data transfer performance between the DOE ASCR
HPC facilities at ANL, LBNL, ORNL, NCSA
4.4TB of cosmology simulation data
Q2. Are there any success stories regarding data transfer that you can
report? What difficulties have you experienced?
a
Q3. What problems do your communities report to you around data
transfers?
a
Q4. Which tools or methods do you use to measure the data transfers and
the data rates or the performance that can be achieved?
Q5. What services do you provide to your users to help them move data
across your network?
Q6. Do you provide any other forms of assistance to your users to help
them achieve optimal data transfers across your network?
a