Simon Leinen

SWITCH

Tales from the PERT

One of several initiatives towards "end-to-end" performance improvement, the PERT (Performance Enhancement and Response Team) strives to provide a human infrastructure that can assist users - of research networks in particular - to improve performance of their networked applications. PERT work involves understanding user expectations, understanding interactions in complex systems, finding bottlenecks, and managing communication between users and administrators over many different domains. We will present experiences from three years of production-level PERT work in GN2 and SWITCH, and give an outlook on potential future development of the PERT idea.

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Biography

Simon has been working at SWITCH as a network engineer since 1996. He has participated in several joint European projects, as well as IETF standardization activities in the areas of accounting (IPFIX) and network management (NETCONF). Currently he a co-manager of the PERT (Performance Enhancement and Response Team) activity in the GN2 project. Simon holds a Diplom-Informatiker degree from TU Berlin.