High Throughput Networking Special Interest Group

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This is the High Throughput special interest group on line group. Network performance problems may cause issues to scientists and network operators alike. Throughput problems can be caused by many factors - including infrastructure, hosts, applications. Researchers that encounter network problems sometimes can use this resource to facilitate troubleshooting, tuning and get general advice from the community.

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David Salmon

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BBCP Throughput Tuning

Paul Lewis

9 September 2013 at 9:57am

The Barbar copy protocol is well used in *nix OS's and can be used to move large amounts of data. Getting the right configuration can increase the throughput between two hosts significantly. Here is a guide from Caltech in the states on how to do this:

http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/bbcp/using_bbcp.htm