Development Collaboration

About the Collaboration

Since its inception in the early 2000s, perfSONAR has been developed through a collaboration of numerous organizations. In 2014, a development partnership was established to further the development of perfSONAR. The participants in this partnership are:

	The Energy Sciences Network U.S. Department of Energy Science Network Founding Partner
	GÉANT Pan-European Research and Education Network Founding Partner
	Indiana University Public Research University Founding Partner
	Internet2 U.S. National Research and Education Network Founding Partner
	The University of Michigan Public Research University Joined the partnership in 2016
	Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa Brazilian National Research and Education Network Joined the partnership in 2021

Each development partner contributes the following:

• A minimum of 1.5 full-time employees
• Computing and network resources
• Meeting space for developer gatherings

If your organization is interested in becoming a perfSONAR development partner, please contact us at perfsonar-lead@internet2.edu.

Contributing Organizations

The success of perfSONAR depends on contributions from the community in the form of development contributions, software testing, feature suggestions, and deployment. The development team would like to thank the following organizations for their contributions to perfSONAR:

• APAN Tokyo XP Network Operations Center

• Brookhaven National Laboratory

• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa (CSIR)

• eduPERT - Performance Enhancement Response Team

• Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

• Fermilab

• Front Range GigaPoP

• Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

• German National Research and Education Network (DFN)

• Global Research Network Operations Center at Indiana University (GlobalNOC)

• Kansas Research and Education Network (KANREN)

• KDDI Research

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

• Leibniz-Rechenzentrum

• MCNC / NCREN

• Michigan State University

• Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)

• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

• National Center for Biotechnology Information

• National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

• Open Grid Forum

• Open Science Grid (OSG)

• Pacific Nortwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

• Pennsylvania State University (PSU)

• PerfClub

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)

• Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)

• Research and Education Data Depot Network (REDDnet)

• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

• SWITCH

• Texas A&M University

• U.S. Collaboration for the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC (US ATLAS)

• University of California, Santa Cruz

• University of Colorado

• University of Delaware

• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

• University of Illinois

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• University of Oklahoma

• University of Southern California

• University of Utah

• University of Wisconsin

• Utah Education Network (UEN)

• Vanderbilt University

• Vanderbilt University Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)