GEC16 - GENI "Hive Mind" Report =============================== Period: November 1, 2012 - April 1, 2013 I. Major accomplishments this period ------------------------------------- ### A. Milestones achieved this period All Project Milestones Previously Completed ### B. Deliverables made this period All Project Deliverables Previously Delivered II. Description of work performed during this period ---------------------------------------------------- ### A. Activities and findings We demonstrated our Hive Mind prototype at GEC15 and GEC16. We have also delivered and posted a working version of our software and documentation. We are continuing to update and improve the Hive Mind software and are posting an updated version in this project period. Our development and experimentation work is continuing as we both make the software more robust, usable, and extensible, as well as assess the efficacy of the software for a variety of circumstances. Our current software version is substantially more modular, enabling substantially easier development of additional "ant" sensors. ### B. Current project participants PI: Sean Peisert (UC Davis) Senior Personnel: Matt Bishop (UC Davis) Steven Templeton (UC Davis) Students: Vinod Balachandran (UC Davis) Jonathan Ganz (UC Davis) Vishak Muthukumar (UC Davis) ### C. Publications (individual and organizational) this period Sean Whalen, Sean Peisert, and Matt Bishop, "Multiclass Classification of Distributed Memory Parallel Computations," Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 34(3), pp. 322–329, February 2013. Xiao Li, Zhifang Wang, Vishak Muthukumar, Anna Scaglione, Chuck McParland, and Sean Peisert, "Networked Loads in the Distribution Grid," Proceedings of the 2012 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Hollywood, CA, December 3–6, 2012. ### D. Outreach activities this period Prof. Peisert is serving on the steering committee of the 6th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '13) on August 12, 2013: https://www.usenix.org/conference/cset13/ The CFP was issued and submissions are due by April 25, 2013. Traditionally, this workshop has considerable discussion of and focus on testbeds, including GENI. ### E. Collaborations this period We are working closely with staff at the DETER project, who are facilitating our implementation and experimental work, particularly with regard to virtualization, on DETER; and with Rob Ricci, who is facilitating our implementation and experimental work on ProtoGENI. We are grateful to the staff at both projects for their valuable help. ### F. Other Contributions N/A