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OTC CatchUp #100

Date: 08-10-2022

Duration: 9 hrs 48 mins

Topics Discussed

  • We completed OTC CatchUps for 100 consecutive weeks 🥳

  • Anil Harwani shared the github.com/esnet/iperf repository which is a measurement of TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth.

  • Anil Harwani explained how a packet travels from the network card to application. "Path of a packet in the Linux kernel stack" explains it in-depth.

  • Anil Harwani shared how DPDK (Data plane development kit) handles the networking in most mainframes.

  • Anil Harwani showed us some of the lesser known Linux commands.

    • lscpu - lscpu gathers CPU architecture information sysfs, /proc/cpuinfo and any applicable architecture-specific libraries (e.g. Librtas on PowerPC).

    • w - w displays the information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes.

    • wall - wall displays a message, or the contents of a file, or otherwise its standard input, on the terminals of all currently logged in users.

  • Anil Harwani spoke about jumbo frames which makes transmission fasters as the frame size are bigger which in turn takes less time to process.

  • Anil Harwani shared how a workaround in Linux Kernel was hurting modern AMD’s performance.

  • Anil Harwani showed how screen command in Linux helps him in his workflow.

    • screen command in Linux provides the ability to launch and use multiple shell sessions from a single ssh session.

  • Harsh Kapadia shared Missing semester by MIT which is a course to learn the basics of Linux and networking.

  • We watched a funny video where an old finance minister of India talks about Tech and the Cloud.

  • Sreekaran Srinath pointed out an issue with '/' at the end of the CatchUp summary page.

  • Sreekaran Srinath, Darshan Rander, Pratik Thakare and Kartik Soneji voted, discussed, argued, and decided on contracting a multimillion-dollar corporation to deliver heat-sterilized dough and cheese discs with an industry-standard pipeline. Optimized the landing cost to area ratio of aforementioned discs.

Projects Showcased

  • Harsh Kapadia showcased his "Socket Programming: Measuring RTT and Throughput of a network connection" where he is measuring RTT and throughput using Java for his college assignment.

Attendees

  1. Ayush Chauhan

  2. Aaditya Chinchkhedkar

  3. Aditya Oberai

  4. Anam Ansari

  5. Anas Khan

  6. Anas Khan

  7. Aryan Nayak

  8. Darshan Rander

  9. Dheeraj Lalwani

  10. Dhiraj Chauhan

  11. Harsh Kapadia

  12. Ishan Sharma

  13. Kartik Soneji

  14. Kaustubh Khavnekar

  15. Krishna Gadia

  16. Mustafa Saifee

  17. Nikshitha Karkera

  18. Ninad Naik

  19. Pranav Dani

  20. Pranil Chitre

  21. Pratik Thakare

  22. Rishit Dagli

  23. Sadik Khatik

  24. Sahil Prasad

  25. Saifuddin Saifee

  26. Sarah Khan

  27. Siddharth Bhatia

  28. Sreekaran Srinath

  29. Tanay Kamath

  30. Tushar Nankani

  31. Wilfred Almeida

  32. Jaden Furtado

  33. Anil Harwani

  34. Harsh Tiwari

  35. Hrishikesh Yadav

  36. Hamza Sayyed

  37. Prathik Shetty

  38. Rashid Aziz

  39. Rishi Kewalya

  40. Rishi Setpal

  41. Suraj Chavan

  42. Vinayak Shukla

  43. Sachin Jangir

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