| 9 | |
| 10 | Per report on 7/31/09: |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ViSE is running the latest reference implementation of the Shirako/Orca codebase. Note that Milestone 1c |
| 13 | (completed February 1st, 2009) required ViSE to perform an initial integration of Shirako/Orca prior to an official |
| 14 | reference implementation being released. See that milestone for specific details related to the integration. Incorporating |
| 15 | the latest reference implementation required only minor (although tedious) code porting. Additionally, as a |
| 16 | result of the Orca-fest conference call on May 28th, the GENI Project Office and Cluster D set mini-milestones that |
| 17 | were not in the original Statement of Work. These milestones are related to Milestone 1e, since they involve the |
| 18 | particular instantiation of Orca that Cluster D will use. In particular, by June 15th, 2009, we upgraded our ORCA |
| 19 | actors to support secure SOAP messages. As part of this mini-milestone, Brian Lynn of the DOME project and |
| 20 | the ViSE project also setup a control plane server that will host the aggregate manager and portal servers for both |
| 21 | the DOME and ViSE projects. This server has the DNS name geni.cs.umass.edu. The server includes 4 network |
| 22 | interface cards: one connects to a gateway ViSE node on the CS department roof, one will connect to an Internet2 |
| 23 | backbone site (via a VLAN), one connects to the public Internet, and one connects to an internal development |
| 24 | ViSE node. The installation of geni.cs.umass.edu with the latest version of Orca means that we are well-prepared |
| 25 | to transition to using a remote Clearinghouse provided by RENCI. |
| 26 | During the Orca-fest and subsequent Cluster D meetings we set the milestone for shifting within the range of |
| 27 | August 15th, 2009 and September 1st, 2009. We are currently discussing with the Duke/RENCI Orca/Ben group |
| 28 | to complete this milestone in a few intermediary steps—-first moving the DOME and ViSE brokers to RENCI and |
| 29 | then incorporating them into the same Clearinghouse as the other Cluster D projects. Since we have already setup |
| 30 | and tested the latest implementation of Orca on geni.cs.umass.edu, we are well-positioned to transition to a remote |
| 31 | Clearinghouse if provided by RENCI. |