Timeline

Detailed History

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2015

  • September 28 - perfSONAR 3.5 release. New Toolkit Web Interface and Debian support.

  • April 21 - perfsonarUI 1.5 release.

  • March 24 - perfSONAR 3.4.2 release.

  • February 19 - MaDDash 1.2 release.

2014

  • October 27 - perfSONAR 3.4.1 release

  • October 7 - perfSONAR 3.4 release. Fullinstall option. LiveCD/LiveUSB dropped. First steps toward unifying the projects into one development effort with the inclusion of the OWAMP MP and BWCTL MP added from MDM.

  • February 19 - perfSONAR-PS/MDM convergence initiated during perfSONAR Workshopn in Arlington, VA. Fosters collaboration of ESnet, GÉANT, Indiana University and Internet2.

  • February 3 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.3.2 release.

2013

  • December 10 - perfSONAR-PS Toolkit deployment reaches 1,000 instances.

  • June 14 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.3 release. CentOS6 support. Live USB option.

  • June 7 - perfsonarUI Web 1.0 release.

2012

  • April 20 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.2.2 release.

2011

  • October 17 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.2.1 release

2010

  • December 3 - perfSONAR MDM 3.3 release

  • October 22 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.2 release. Netinstall and LiveCD options. CentOS5.5 support.

  • April 22 - 2010 pS-Performance Toolkit 3.1.3 release

  • February 18 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.1.2 release

2009

  • November 6 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.1.1 release

  • September 26 - pS-Performance Toolkit 3.1 release

  • August 13 - perfSONAR MDM bundle 3.2 release

  • July - NML-WG first draft schema

  • May 27 - First NMC-WG GGF document on schema for protocols to control of network measurement: An Extensible Protocol for Network Measurement and Control DRAFT

  • January 23 - perfSONAR MDM bundle 3.1 release

2008

  • October 2 - pS-NPToolkit 2.0 release

  • August 13 - NPToolkit 1.1 release

  • June 2 - Formation of NMC-WG at OGF23 during BOF at OGF23, Barcelona, Spain. NMC-WG Network Measurement Control defines protocols for generation and fetching of network measurements (perfSONAR)

  • June - NPToolkit 1.0/Knoppix Live CD. perfSONAR-PS services (BWCTL and OWAMP) + NPAD and NDT

  • May 7 - perfSONAR MDM 3.0 release. Linux distributions (RPMs and Debian packages) for all software. Developed by GÉANT2 project partners, RNP, Internet2

  • April 15 - NPtoolkit 0.09 release

2007

  • December 17 - perfSONAR bundle 2.2 release

  • August 22 - perfSONAR bundle 2.1 release

  • May 25 - perfSONAR bundle 2.0 release (rrd ma, sql ma, ls, ssh/telnet mp, clmp, bwctl mp) in Java and Perl

  • May - perfSONAR NM-WG v2.0 schema published

  • February - Formation of OGF NML-WG group at OGF19. NML-WG Network Markup Language decsribes network topologies,

  • January 26 - perfsonarUI 0.09 release as Java WebStart

2006

  • July 18 - perfSONAR 1.0 release. Included Java RRD MA and Java LS. Delivered by Internet2, ESnet, GEANT, RNP.

  • January 8 - perfsonarUI 0.02 release

2005

  • June 6 - GÉANT and Internet2 paper Towards Multi–Domain Monitoring for the European Research Networks presented at TNC2005 conference, Poznań, Poland.

  • April - System gets its name: perfSONAR.

  • Joint prototype development starts. ESnet and RNP join collaboration.

2004

  • September 22 - EU-US meeting at GGF12, Brussels, Belgium

  • September - GÉANT2/JRA1 Performance Monitoring General Framework Design starts

  • July - GÉANT2 JRA1 collaborates with internet2 E2Epi End-2-End performance initiative. Meeting of leaders.

  • June 10 - EU-US meeting about performance initiative with Internet2 during TNC2004 conference, Rhodes, Greece.

  • March 17 - Transatlantic Performance Monitoring Workshop in Geneva starts collaboration at the meeting of Internet2, DANTE, CANARIE to work on joint architecture, development and tools deployement.

2003

  • November 15 - Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance Environment System (E2E piPES) demonstarted at SC03, Phoenix, AZ.

  • March 19 - First NM-WG GGF document on schema for measurements: A Hierarchy of Network Performance Characteristics for Grid Applications and Services.

2002

  • October 18 - First programme of the European PERT (Performance Enhancement and Response Team) at TF-NGN9 Meeting, Budapest, Hungary

  • July - E2E piPEline: End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance Environment System Architecture published.

  • Internet2 Performance Evaluation and Review Framework (PERF) established