| 45 | | The scope of work on this project is to extend the DOME outdoor, mobile network testbed to support slivering and utilize a GENI candidate control framework (ORCA). |
| | 45 | The DOME software was completed. This includes: |
| | 46 | o Final testing of the ability to run user-defined experiments in a virtual |
| | 47 | environment on the bricks (computers on the buses). |
| | 48 | o The completion of the DOME portal. The portal allows users to upload |
| | 49 | files (VM partitions), create experiments, schedule experiments and |
| | 50 | perform maintenance tasks. |
| | 51 | o Field verification of the disruption tolerant interface between the buses |
| | 52 | and the portal for downloading experiments and communicating leases. |
| | 53 | o The addition of a logging facility with persistent storage and an export |
| | 54 | facility, integrated with the portal. |
| | 55 | o A workaround to allow the canceling of leases was implemented in the |
| | 56 | DieselNet Controller, and an interface was provided via the DOME portal. |
| | 57 | • The DOME GENI software was distributed to all buses in August. This involved |
| | 58 | re-imaging and re-installing the hard drives on all bricks. |
| | 59 | • DOME completed its integration with ORCA. The ability to distribute actors |
| | 60 | between UMass and RENCI was verified. |
| | 61 | • We have announced the availability of DOME to external GENI researchers. |
| | 62 | • We implemented DOLPHIN, a lightweight scheduler that allows us to |
| | 63 | temporarily take ORCA offline to perform maintenance and install ORCA |
| | 64 | updates without disrupting DOME on the buses. |
| | 65 | • Documentation and software was posted to the portal. |
| | 66 | o Various utilities to reduce the size of partitions, test the launching of |
| | 67 | experiments, generate log files, etc. were made available. |
| | 68 | o Examples of experiments, methods to access devices, etc. were posted on |
| | 69 | the portal. |
| | 70 | o Documentation was written and placed to the portal. This included |
| | 71 | documentation so that users can have their own development bricks. |
| | 72 | • DOME's virtualization capabilities were demonstrated at GEC5. We showed the |
| | 73 | ability to schedule and launch experiments on a DOME brick. This was done |
| | 74 | using ORCA as the framework. |
| | 75 | • An MOU was agreed upon with the UMass Office of Information Technology |
| | 76 | (OIT) regarding connecting Internet2 to the DOME and ViSE servers, along with |
| | 77 | VLAN access. |
