| | 1 | = Progress Report for the GENI Experiment Engine: GEC 19 = |
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| | 3 | == Contract Deliverables == |
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| | 5 | - Submitted design document to GPO on GEE Filesystem Design |
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| | 7 | - Submitted design document to GPO on GEE Network Design |
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| | 9 | - Submitted design document to GPO on GEE Message System Design |
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| | 11 | - Demonstrated GENI Experiment Engine Slicelet Creation, experimental run, and teardown in under five minutes at GEC-19 |
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| | 13 | == Technical Progress == |
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| | 15 | - Preallocated four-node InstaGENI PlanetLab slicelets as GENI Experiment Engine Slicelets |
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| | 17 | - Developed demonstration-quality webserver to allocate and reclaim GENI Experiment Engine Slicelets, using Google-based authentication |
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| | 19 | - Integrated Swift storage engine with Syndicate meta-data server |
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| | 21 | - Developed architecture for creation of use-once ("burner") slice credentials and delivery of credentials to user |
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| | 23 | - Integrated Fabric as deployment and experiment execution engine |
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| | 25 | - Established a Github repository for GEE code [[https://github.com/rickmcgeer/geni-expt-engine]] |
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| | 27 | == Ongoing Issues == |
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| | 29 | - We are highly reliant on GENI VLANs for the networking elements of the GENI Experiment Engine, and we need a guarantee that the VLANs that we allocate will be stable over, essentially, the lifetime of GENI -- at a minimum, we require some notice before a VLAN is torn down |
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| | 31 | - Need to continually renew the GEE slice on GENI, and reallocate slivers. The GEE, particularly the GEE Compute Engine, is designed as a set of long-running, stable services, not short-run experiments. |
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| | 33 | == Outreach Activities == |
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| | 35 | - Rick !McGeer "Distributed Clouds" keynote presentation at workshop in Dresden |
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| | 37 | - Rick !McGeer "Distributed Clouds" seminars at TU-Berlin and TU-Kaiserslautern |
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| | 39 | - Rick !McGeer "Distributed Clouds" lecture at San Jose State University |
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| | 41 | - GENI Experiment Engine presentation at GEC-19 |
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| | 43 | == Plans for GEC 20 == |
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| | 45 | - Bring filesystem and message system to demo-quality implementation |
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| | 47 | - Expand range of actions offered through the website -- show user slicelet status, permit recovery of credential zip file |
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| | 49 | - Remove a number of security holes in website -- user email passed in plain-text parameter, in particular. |
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| | 51 | - Add hook to permit user to automatically report a bug to GEE team |
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| | 53 | - Recruit a small number of experimenters to participate in GEE beta program |
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| | 55 | - Investigate design alternatives for GEE Slicelet hosts. We currently run in PlanetLab nodes, but could potentially do this in OpenVZ ProtoGENI images, and/or !OpenCloud images |
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| | 57 | - Investigate sharing raw PC with VTS. Currently, we need one raw PC per rack, and so does Nick for VTS. That's 40% of the capacity of an InstaGENI rack, which is an excessive use of resources. In both of our cases, we don't need a full PC; we just can't live in a VM. |
