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Low Cost perfSONAR Nodes

Antoine Delvaux edited this page Apr 28, 2019 · 4 revisions

End user documentation

The results of the experimentation of running perfSONAR on low cost hardware along with our current recommendations is documented on our docs website..

Below is information that predates the redaction of the above documentation. It is kept for historical reasons only.


Exploration

Here is a summary of various projects exploring the use of perfSONAR on low-cost hardware.

Who Hardware Project URLs Summary of results so far
ESnet (Brian Tierney and Nick Buraglio) Cubox-i Pro images and rpms, install notes works with both Fedora and Debian, max TCP bw is 350 Mbps
Univ Hawaii (Alan Whinery) Raspberry PI, BeagleBone Black, Cubox coming soon coming soon
RNP (Murlio Vetter) Raspberry PI , Cubox, Blue Appliance 847 Cubox Install Guide, Raspberry PI Install Guide, Blue Appliance 847 Install Guide see below
LSU (Jeffry Handal ) BeagleBone Black coming soon coming soon
Nasa Ames (Mark Foster) MiraBox coming soon coming soon
KanREN (Casey Russell/Cort Buffington) Cubox-i coming soon coming soon
Univ Arkansas (Rick McMullen) Cubox 4i, ARM 7 coming soon coming soon
AARnet (Alex Dodson) banana PI coming soon coming soon

Useful Links:

RNP Summary:

  • Terena Article
  • Rapsberry PI Works fine with Adafruit Ultimate GPS, for OWD tests.
  • Cubox throughput ~600 Mbps.
  • Blue Appliance 847 works fine with Garmin GPS 18x LVC, for OWD and Bandwidth tests simultaneously on separated NIC interfaces. Throughput ~900 Mbps.
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