"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Bill,
>Who, me? Paper reviewers are supposed to anonymous. Let's just say I >agree with your assessment. Ah. OK. the anonymity is a consideration. Of course you could have come up with your objections to the paper entirely independently of that anonymous referee, and your agreement was just that any true thinkers would have agreed! >I've seen a number of papers like this; some I have reviewed. They are >written by folks with computer science backgrounds and are not well >trained in physics and engineering principles and even less in the >physical properties of real oscillators. You (and others) might not like >the NTP mitigation and discipline algorithms, but each one is based on >thorough analysis with respect to sound physics and engineering >principles as confirmed by measurement over a wide body of scenarios. >Unruh wrote: >> "David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>Gene, >> >> >>>I've seen and reviewed the paper; however, reviews are private to the >> >> >> Their paper is public. It is posted on the web. >> >> >>>authors. Someone else should take a close look at what they are actually >>>measuring and assess the dynmaics of the discipline loop. >> >> >> Did you do so? If so, your analysis would be of interest. And I cannot see >> why the analysis of a public paper should be kept private. >> >> >> >>>Dave >> >> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>>Developers at the University of Melbourne have produced a time-sync >>>>client called "TSCclock" which exchanges standard NTP packets with a >>>>NTP server. They assert that TSCclock, which runs on FreeBSD and at >>>>least two flavors of Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora), provides substantially >>>>better synchronization than ntpd both on a LAN and over the Internet. >>>> >>>>The following info is some of what is available: >>>> >>>>1. The TSCclock page at the University of Melbourne: >>>>http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/tscclock/ >>>> >>>>2. A paper titled "Ten Microseconds Over LAN, for Free", originally >>>>presented at the 2007 International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock >>>>Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication. This is >>>>available at >>>>http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/~darryl/Publications/ISPCS07_camera.pdf >>>>It includes a general description of their approach and results for >>>>both ntpd and TSCclock obtained in their testbed. >>>> >>>>3. A one-hour Google Tech Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nXgeh7v_U >>>> >>>>All of the info on TSCclock that I have run across has originated with >>>>the group at the University of Melbourne. Does anyone know of an >>>>independent comparison between ntpd and TSCclock? >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Gene _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
