Milestone MAX: Extend DRAGON/GRMS

Extend DRAGON/GRMS as an aggregate manager to include optical and edge compute resources (completed by month 6)

• Initially work to support such functionality end-to-end over VLANs
  
• Explore the impacts of layer 2 VLAN handoffs from national backbones like

Internet2 to the MAX network infrastructure and how they can lead to supporting exploration at layer 1 optical level

work completed:
Multiple Aggregate Manager Integration (PlanetLab AM with DRAGON AM):

• use PLCAPI XMLRPC to instantiate a planetlab slice across several nodes
  • adjusted polling interval on node manager:
  • create tagged VLAN interfaces on these planetlab nodes
• provision a circuit (DRAGON slice) between HOUS/LOSA node and the "big" planetlab5 node at MAX
  • demonstrates:
    • dynamic circuits slice provisioning
    • integration of non-planetlab and planetlab prototype aggregation managers
    • inter-domain circuit creation over the wide-area network with a SONET-switched network
• transfer data using nuttscp (as fast as possible)
• run md5sum to show that data is valid
• provision circuits between planetlab nodes to distribute the data:
  • src planetlab5, dst planetlab2
  • src planetlab5, dst planetlab3
  • src planetlab5, dst planetlab4
• transfer data between these pairs of nodes
• run md5sum to show that data is valid