Performing Arts - GÉANT and perfSONAR MDM

The Challenge

Global collaboration is at the heart of arts, research and education, relying on multiple networks to link students and academics together.  Ensuring consistent performance and tracking down potential issues in such a complicated multi-domain infrastructure can be difficult.  In today’s data-driven world, global researchers rely on multiple networks to connect, collaborate and share information. 

The Solution

Research networking organisations across the globe have collaborated to develop perfSONAR, a protocol, architecture and set of tools to address the challenge of monitoring network performance in a multi-domain environment. Consequently networking organisations in Europe, North America and Brazil, including the GÉANT project, have come together to create perfSONAR, a protocol, architecture and set of tools to meet this challenge. Essentially perfSONAR works by creating standardised measurement data across all networks involved, making it simple for engineers to access consistent information and identify problems, no matter where in the overall network they are.

Key Benefits

The power of perfSONAR for monitoring was demonstrated when it underpinned a recent successful simultaneous performance featuring dancers in Brasilia and Barcelona performing together in real time. Demonstrating worldwide research collaboration via incredible arts and culture collaborations across continents

​High profile dance event A high profile international dance event at the 2011 TERENA Network Performing Arts Production Workshop demonstrated the power of perfSONAR MDM, the GÉANT perfSONAR service. It featured a simultaneous performance between dancers in Brasilia and Barcelona performing together. Video cameras captured images and sound at one location. This was then transmitted across research networks and projected in real time at the other location, allowing the dancers to interact on a virtual stage as if they were all in the same place. perfSONAR MDM was used by the five research networks involved to test the route, monitor for potential problems and solve any issues before the performance began, leading to a successful international real time performance.

 

​Partners in the perfSONAR MDM monitoring for the TERENA dance performance:
​perfSONAR MDM: http://www.perfsonar.net/ CESCA : http://www.cesca.cat/en/ GÉANT: www.geant.net RedCLARA : http://www.redclara.net/ RedIRIS : http://www.rediris.es/ RNP: http://www.rnp.br/