EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2024)

Identifying and Understanding Scientific Network Flows

  • Attebury Garhan,
  • Babik Marian,
  • Carder Dale,
  • Chown Tim,
  • Hanushevsky Andrew,
  • Hoeft Bruno,
  • Lake Andrew,
  • Lambert Michael,
  • Letts James,
  • McKee Shawn,
  • Newell Karl,
  • Sullivan Tristan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429501036
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 295
p. 01036

Abstract

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The High-Energy Physics (HEP) and Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) communities have faced significant challenges in understanding their global network flows across the world’s research and education (R&E) networks. This article describes the status of the work carried out to tackle this challenge by the Research Technical Networking Working Group (RNTWG) and the Scientific Network Tags (Scitags) initiative, including the evolving framework and tools, as well as our plans to improve network visibility before the next WLCG Network Data Challenge in early 2024. The Scitags initiative is a long-term effort to improve the visibility and management of network traffic for data-intensive sciences. The efforts of the RNTWG and Scitags initiatives have created a set of tools, standards, and proof-of-concept demonstrators that show the feasibility of identifying the owner (community) and purpose (activity) of network traffic anywhere in the network.