InstaGENI Project Status Report

Period: GEC16

I. Major accomplishments

Deployments at the GENI Project Office, Northwestern University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech, and Princeton University Generation 8 hardware loaned to the University of Utah for qualifications tests Utah and Northwestern racks used in GEC-16 Tutorials and GEC-16 Plenary Demo Intercontinental TransGEO demonstration at GEC-16 Cross-aggregate interoperation (InstaGENI Racks at U Vic and Northwestern; Emulab at Brazil and Utah; standard cluster at Ghent; GENICloud at TU-Kaiserslautern; !VNode in Tokyo) achieved

A. Milestones achieved

Deployments at the GENI Project Office, Northwestern University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech, and Princeton University

II. Description of work performed during last quarter

Briefed Matrix on reseller requirements
Updated and kept up with all GENI tickets
Created TransGEO demo
Began work on GENI Canada with MITACS

A. Activities and findings

Updated parts bill of materials
With GENI Project Office, finalized full list of InstaGENI sites
InstaGENI rack used in third slice-around-the-world demo

B. Project participants

Rick McGeer, HP Labs
Narayan Krishnan, HP Labs
Nicki Watts, HP Consulting Services
Jack Brassil, HP Labs
Michaela Mezo, HP Bill Burns, HP Joe Mambretti, Northwestern
Jim Chen, Northwestern
Rob Ricci, University of Utah
Leigh Stoller, University of Utah
Andy Bavier, PlanetWorks LLC
Nicholas Bastin

C. Publications (individual and organizational)

D. Outreach activities

InstaGENI Presentation, GEC 16
InstaGENI Presentation, US Marines, Okinawa
InstaGENI Presentation, Ohio Supercomputing Center
InstaGENI Presentation, UC Davis
InstaGENI Presentation, University of Kentucky
InstaGENI Presentation, Big Data Symposium, University of Victoria InstaGENI Presentation, National Institute of Communications Technology, Japan
InstaGENI Presentation, Internet-2 Meeting, Hawaii
InstaGENI Presentation, MITACS
InstaGENI tutorial, GEC 16
TransGEO Demonstration, National Institute of Communications Technology, Japan
TransGEO Demonstration, ON*VECTOR, San Diego
TransGEO Demonstration, GEC-16, San Diego

E. Collaborations

InstaGENI rack used in third slice-around-the-world demo
TransGEO demo with a long list of collaborators (BBN, Northwestern, PlanetWorks, Princeton, Utah, TU-Kaiserslautern, University of Ghent, University of Tokyo, University of Sao Paulo, University of Victoria, NICT, HP, Canarie, DFN, University of Amsterdam, Florida International University, National Lambda Rail, JGN-X, Iron.io, GEANT, Manic Studios, RNPGLIF

F. Other Contributions