Web10G is the successor to the Web100 project; an initiative to instrument the TCP stack and present this data to users. While Web100 has enjoyed wide spread adoption in diagnosing networking performance, its design precludes it from inclusion in the mainstream production Linux kernels. Web10G's design addresses the issues in Web100 by leveraging an ABI based on NetLink and a streamlined API to facilitate easier creation and porting of Web10G applications. Moreover, Web10G elevates the instrumentation within Web100 to proposed standards, by implementing the RFC 4898 specification. In this meeting we will introduce Web10G, discuss the current status, and lay out our development road map. Since community input is crucial to this project we will have an open discussion following the presentation. We encourage participants to discuss their ideas regarding advanced diagnostics and applications that might benefit from an instrumented TCP stack. Lunch served on Mezzanine level.

The team just gave a very well recieved tutorial at the Summer 2012 Joint Techs conference at Stanford University. At this tutorial we demonstrated a new version of the Web10G kernel and API. This version of the kernel will be made available to everyone by Wednesday July 18th. We also believe we will have another release later this week that will include support for the CUBIC, BIC, and H-TCP congestion control algorithims.

The Web10G team is pleased to announce the availablity of Web10G patches for Linux kernels 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 under the Software section of www.web10g.org. These patch sets include the necessary kernel patches, the loadable kernel module, sample client software, and the required libmnl library. The patches, like 3.1, no longer make use of the /proc interface but instead provide user access to kernel data through the netlinks interface. This change significantly decreases the overhead associated with instrumenting the TCP stack.

The Web10g team is pleased to announce that the alpha release of our TCP stack instrumentation kernel modules is now available as a patch and git source. You can find it under the 'Software' tab in the Kernel Patches section. It is currently available for the linux 3.1.0 kernel.

We've made some changes here at web10g.org that we hope will make the site more accessible and usable to the web10g community.

PITTSBURGH, PA., September 9, 2010 — The Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX), the advanced network research group at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, has received a $980,000 Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, from NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure, is for a three-year project called "Web10Gig" that will develop network software to enable ordinary users to effectively use advanced networks.Web10Gig builds on an earlier successful project called Web100 that ended in 2003 and produced prototype software still heavily used. PSC partnered on Web100 with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (in Colorado) and with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (NCSA), and on Web10Gig is again partnering with NCSA, which received a $200,000 award from NSF for the new project.

"The potential broader impact of Web10Gig is huge," said PSC director of networking Wendy Huntoon. "IIt can make it easy for users from the broadest range of fields and technical abilities to use the network to its full capacity. Eliminating many common network problems will have a transformative effect for researchers in many disciplines."