Implementing Blindingly Fast Data Transfers Between Distant Sites

Paul K Hyder
Forecast Systems Lab, OAR

Actual transfer speeds of large data sets between distant NOAA locations, across the existing wonderous high speed interconnects, are usually much slower than they should be. The primary constraint is not, as one might expect, link load or host speed. It turns out to be the network configuration for the host sending data, i.e. It can be corrected.

Tutorial will consist of a discussion of network tools and tuning parameters specific to large TCP/IP data transfers focusing on optimizing data transfer speeds.

New versions of common data transfer tools like FTP will be introduced and we will cover the why, what, and how-to aspects of high speed networks.

None of this is actually new technology, it just needs to be implemented across NOAA.