Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of ExptSvcsWGGEC3Minutes

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11/10/08 10:58:10 (15 years ago)

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Vic Thomas

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+        Minutes of the GENI Experimenter Workflow and Services
+                        Working Group Meeting
+                           30 October 2008
+
+Recorded by Vic Thomas (GPO System Engineer)
+
+The GENI Experiment Services and Workflow Working Group met as part of
+the GEC-3 conference hosted by HP Labs, Palo Alto, California.
+
+Meeting agenda:
+    * Welcome and meeting objectives -- Jeff Chase, Duke University
+    (WG chair) 
+    * Lifecycle of a GENI Experiment -- Vic Thomas, GPO (System
+    engineer supporting the WG) 
+    * Project talk: GENI Experiment Control using GUSH-- Jeannie
+    Albrecht, Williams College
+    * Lightning talk: Slice Control and Programmability in Wireless
+    Sensor Networks -- Hongwei Zhang, Ohio State University
+    * Lightning talk: Orbit Management, Control & Measurement
+    Framework -- Max Ott, NICTA
+    * Project talk: Raven - A Provisioning Service for GENI -- John
+    Hartman, University of Arizona 
+    * Project talk: Instrumentation Tools for a GENI Prototype -- Jim
+    Griffioen, University of Kentucky
+    * Lightning talk: Digital Object Architecture -- Giridhar
+    Manepalli, CNRI
+    * Project talk: Data Plane Measurements -- Deniz Gurkan,
+    University of Houston
+    * Next steps for the WG -- Vic Thomas, GPO
+
+Jeff Chase described the scope and activities of the working group.
+He showed where this WG fit into the overall GENI architecture and
+introduced the talks to be presented at this meeting.  Jeff's
+presentation includes a number of questions to be addressed by this
+WG. The presentation also includes strawman GENI usage scenarios---
+canonical usage scenarios that can be used for discussions on
+experimenter workflow and services.  Time constraints prevented Jeff
+from presenting this material; he hopes these issues will be discussed
+on the WG mailing list and in future meetings.
+Presentation:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/JeffChase-ExptSvcsWG.ppt
+
+Vic Thomas presented his view of the workflow for an experimenter
+using GENI.  For each step of the workflow he identified tools and
+services needed to support that step.  The objective of the
+presentation was to get feedback on whether this workflow was
+consistent with the thinking of the WG participants, to understand how
+proposed projects and ideas fit into this workflow, and to identify
+areas of disagreement.  A person in the room pointed out that it would
+be useful to have a tool that schedules experiments based on resource
+needs and availability.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/ExptLifeCycle-GEC3-v2.ppt.
+
+Jeannie Albrecht described her project that is developing abstractions
+and tools for addressing the challenges of managing multiple
+applications.  The project is developing Gush, a distributed
+experiment management infrastructure based on her previous work called
+Plush.  Gush supports multiple steps in the experimenter's workflow:
+Describing an experiment using application building blocks, acquiring
+resources to run the experiment, configuring the resources, starting
+the experiment, monitoring the experiment (including failure
+handling), and finally cleaning up the resources used.  Gush is being
+built to integrate with the PlanetLab control framework.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/jeannie-gush-gec3.ppt.
+
+Hongwei Zhang gave a lightning talk on experimenter tools available on
+Sensei, the wireless sensor network testbed from Ohio State.  This
+testbed provides "slice control" services. These services allow slices
+to be moved, i.e. the set of sensor nodes that belong to a slice can
+be changed dynamically to track events of interest to the experiment.
+They also help experimenters maintain slice invariants and collect slice
+statistics.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/Zhang%20-%20SliceControl-Programmability.ppt.
+
+Max Ott gave a lightning talk on experiment related measurements on
+Orbit.  The experimenter describes the experiment using a Ruby-based
+language.  The information to be collected is also specified using
+this language.  The measurements are collected in a relational
+database.  Orbit provides APIs for analyzing the data collected.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/OrbitMeasurementLayer-Max.ppt
+
+John Hartman gave a project talk on Raven for managing software
+deployments for GENI experiments.  Raven supports the deployment of
+software to programmable components and updating this software while
+the experiment runs.  It builds on the Stork project and like Stork is
+targeted to the PlanetLab control framework.  Raven supports the
+creation and distribution of packages and metadata files with configuration
+instructions. Raven will also provide tools for resource discovery and
+allocation.  Raven and Gush are complementary projects: Raven
+addresses software management while Gush addresses slice management.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/Raven-hartman.pdf.
+
+Jim Griffioen gave a project talk on the easy to use instrumentation
+tools they are building so GENI experimenters have a better
+understanding on the runtime behaviour of their experiments.  They are
+modifying the Edulab web interface to include experiment monitoring
+pages.  Examples of information that can be monitored include OS
+performance/load, traffic graphs and packet traces.  Pictures and GUIs
+are used to specify the information to be collected.  This project
+complements Paul Barford's (U. of Wisconsin) project that is looking
+at measurement data collection.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/GEC3_Kentucky.pdf.
+
+Giridhar Manepalli gave a lightening talk on CNRI's Digital Object
+Architecture that includes a handle system, a digital object
+repository and a digital object registry.  The handle system is a
+distributed and secure policy management system.  It can potentially
+be used for managing GENI principal records.  The registry and repository can
+potentially provide registration, discovery and storage services to
+GENI entities such as principal, component and slice registries, and
+code artifacts.   Control frameworks interested in using the Digital
+Object system should contact Larry Lannom or Giridhar Manepalli of CNRI.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/GEC3-CNRI-LightningTalk.ppt.
+
+Deniz Gurkan gave a project talk providing GENI experimenters with
+measurements at the optical layer.  Examples of measurements include
+bit error rate, optical power, and SONET and Gigabit Ethernet performance
+monitoring.  This measurement work is especially useful for non-IP
+networking experiments.  The project will identify feasible optical
+layer measurement technologies  for GENI and will design a framework
+that will allow experimenters to remotely configure and gather
+instrumentation data.
+Presentation URL:
+http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/presentations/GENI%20GEC3%20DGurkan%20D_Meas-final.ppt.
+
+Finally, Vic Thomas listed the formal deliverable of this working
+group.  He, as the GPO system engineer, will draft these documents but
+would appreciate active community involvement.  At the very least
+community members should comment on the documents.  Text contributions
+to the document will be greatly appreciated.  WG discussions will be
+carried out on the WG mailing list.
+