The purpose of a Science DMZ is to facilitate high-performance network use cases by eliminating sources of packet loss. This video explores the reasoning for this - by showing what happens to the TCP protocols when packet loss is observed.
- E. Dart, L. Rotman, B. Tierney, M. Hester and J. Zurawski, "The Science DMZ: A network design pattern for data-intensive science," 2013 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), Denver, CO, 2013, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.1145/2503210.2503245
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