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According to John DeHart SPP has had hardware failures in the SPP chassis at SLC and WASH. One blade in each chassis will need to be replaced (slot 3 in SLC and slot 4 in WASH). Will be prepped for shipping soon and hopes to install them the next time somebody heads to the PoPs for other work.

Assigned to the demo as I'm not sure what else to assign it to.

Demo resource request for Aster*x. POC is Nikhil Handigol at Stanford: ​nikhilh@cs.stanford.edu

1. Brief demo description

Title: Aster*x: Load-Balancing Web Traffic over Wide-Area Networks

Abstract: Effective load-balancing systems for services hosted in unstructured networks need to take into account both the congestion of the network and the load on the servers. In this demonstration, we illustrate a comprehensive load-balancing solution that works well for such networks. The system we showcase, called Aster*x, tries to minimize response time by controlling the load on the network and the servers using customized flow routing. The demonstration shows how Aster*x works over a combined network and computation slice spanning multiple campuses across the country. Besides the base behavior, we show the effect of dynamically adding and removing computing resources to the system, increasing the request arrival rate, altering the CPU or network load of each request, and changing load-balancing algorithms.

2. List of equipment that will need AC connections: Laptop, Monitor (No. of AC connections: 2)

3. Number of wired network connections : 1

4. Number of wireless network connections : 0-1

5. Projector (y/n) Monitor (y/n, specify VGA or DVI) : One monitor with either a VGA or DVI interface.

6. Number of posters (poster boards are 20" x 30") : 1

7. Number of static addresses needed (if any) : None

8. Description of any special requests (e.g. VLANS to NLR or I2 backbone) : None

The original equipment evaluation took place during Q4 2009 and Q1 2010. The small campus deployment was made using equipment from NEC, HP and Quanta.