Project Number

1709

Project Title

Data-Intensive Cloud Control for GENI
a.k.a. DICLOUD

Technical Contacts

Michael Zink, Principal Investigator University of Massachusetts, Amherst ​zink@cs.umass.edu ​http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/~zink/umasshome/pmwiki.php
Prashant Shenoy, Co-Principal Investigator University of Massachusetts, Amherst ​shenoy@cs.umass.edu ​http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/
Jim Kurose, Co-Principal Investigator University of Massachusetts, Amherst ​kurose@cs.umass.edu ​http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/personnel/kurose.html
David Irwin, Post-doctoral Research Associate University of Massachusetts, Amherst David Irwin ​http://www.cs.umass.edu/~irwin/
Emmanuel Cecchet, Senior Research Fellow University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-9264 ​http://www.cs.umass.edu/~cecchet/

Participating Organizations

Cloud Control ​Trac page hosted at UMass-Amherst. ​UMassAmherst, Amherst, MA

Related Projects

​ViSE project

GPO Liaison System Engineer

Harry Mussman ​hmussman@geni.net

Scope

This project will develop a complete environment for researchers to conduct data-intensive experiments in GENI from start (the data collection point) to finish (processing and archiving).

To do so, this project will extend the GENI/ViSE sensor network (sensornet) testbed at UMass-Amherst and augment GENI Cluster D’s Orca control framework with capabilities for researchers to

(i) obtain data-centric slices that span core sensornet nodes, data center nodes, and, importantly, storage volumes “in the cloud,”
(ii) deploy popular cloud computing programming paradigms to enable simple, but powerful, distributed data processing, and
(iii) execute experiment workflows to explicitly control experiment data flow and resource allocation across a network of components/aggregates.

The project will build on existing software artifacts in the GENI “ecosystem” and tailor them to the distinct requirements of data-intensive experiments. While the enhanced software artifacts will generalize to any high-bandwidth data-intensive experiments, the GENI/ViSE sensornet testbed, which collects high-bandwidth data from multiple high-power (virtualized) sensor/actuators, will be the initial data source.

Our goal by year one is to incorporate commercial cloud computing services, including storage services, as GENI substrates available for researchers.

Our goal by year two is to enhance GENI’s usefulness by testing and hardening the capability for researchers to request (or load) distributed software platforms on commercial clouds. We will demonstrate the capability using both an MPI stack and Apache’s Hadoop framework, an open-source version of MapReduce and Google File System (GFS).

Our goal by year three is to complete the integration of Gush to discover resources and deploy experiment workflows across data-centric slices in the Orca CF.

Operational Capabilities

​DICloud Portal
​DICloud User Guide

Milestones

Spiral 4

• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.a Tutorial at GEC12 and Experimenter Outreach)?
• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.b Documentation and Code Release)?
• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.c Intermediate)?
• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.d Demonstration at GEC13 and Experimenter Outreach)?
• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.e Documentation and Code Release)?
• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.f Intermediate)?
• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.g Demonstration at GEC14 and Experimenter Outreach)?
• MilestoneDate(DICLOUD: S4.h Documentation and code release)?

Status Reports and Demonstrations

4Q09 Status Report
1Q10 Status Report
​GEC7 Demo Description
​2Q10 Status Report
​GEC8 Demo Description
​Spiral 2 review slides

​GEC9 Nowcasting Demo
​Post GEC9 Status Report
​Post-GEC10 Status Report

Technical Documents

Cloud Control ​Trac page hosted at UMass-Amherst.

​Options and Cost Implications for GENI Network Connectivity
​Orca-Amazon Cloud Handlers description
​Orca-Amazon Cloud Handlers code
​Broker Policy

​DICloud Portal
​DICloud User Guide
​DICloud Software Architecture

Software Releases

Code release 11/01/10: (see attachments below)
Includes the AWS accounting service, updated Orca handlers for EC2, S3 and EBS, as well as the DiCloud? Web Portal.
Documentation on the software installation and usage will be provided.
Expose through the web portal the capability to lease EBS volumes and EC2 servers independently, and bind them to EC2 servers as needed

Tutorial instructions for GEC12 are ​here. Example steps for using Gush with Orca are ​here.

Connectivity

​Options and Cost Implications for GENI Network Connectivity