Computing Seminar

High Performance Networking as Sign of its Time

Arie van Praag, CERN/IT

Abstract

After an historical introduction about what people saw as high performance message communication in their time, a far more technical part follows that compares the three 10 Gbit/s network technologies that exist or emerge. Some remarks will be made concerning the understanding of network storage.

About the speaker: Arie van Praag has been working on High Performance networking since 1989. He has made major contributions to the standardisation process of a 10 Gbit/s Network, including the input from research at CERN, and. He was specially involved in the standardisation of a fibre optics standard for GSN and conversion standards for Gigabit ethernet, Scheduled Transfer, and SONET/SDH. He is a member of the "board of directors" of the "High Performance Networking Forum" HNF and chairman of HNF-Europe.