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= GENI Portal and Clearinghouse =

== Schedule ==

Wednesday, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

== Session Leaders ==

Tom Mitchell, Aaron Helsinger, and Marshall Brinn, GENI Project Office

== Agenda ==

 * GENI Portal for Experimenters
  * Description
  * Demonstration
  * Discussion
 * GENI Clearinghouse (time permitting)
  * For Developers
  * Architecture, APIs, Services
 * Invited Talk: Supporting the experiment lifecycle with !MySlice

== Details ==

This is a joint session for GENI experimenters and developers. The
session will provide an overview of the GENI portal for GENI
experimenters, focusing on preparing alpha users of the GENI portal. We will review account registration, project and slice
creation, and resource allocation and management. Time permitting, we
will also review Clearinghouse functionality and APIs for GENI
developers.

== Invited Talk ==
'''Title:''' Supporting the experiment lifecycle with [http://myslice.info MySlice]

'''Presenters:''' Jordan Augé and Loïc Baron

'''Affiliation:''' LIP6 lab (UPMC and CNRS) and the !OneLab and FIT
experimental facilities

'''Abstract:'''
Lowering the entry cost for experimenters is an important objective to
favor the usage of federated facilities, including the ability to
provide a transparent access to various valuable tools and services.
We present !MySlice (http://myslice.info), a slice management tool that
provides experimenters with access to the SFA-based federation of
testbeds. The tool natively provides the essential SFA functionality
while its innovative modular framework easily accommodates
community-developed tools that extend this functionality to cover the
full experiment lifecycle. !MySlice offers three experimenter-facing
interfaces. First, there is a web-based GUI for general users that
allows easy incorporation of contributed plug-ins that are built using
PHP and !JavaScript. Second, an XML-RPC web services interface caters
to power users. Third, a Python core enables developers of experiment
control tools to take advantage of !MySlice's built-in handling of SFA
authentication and authorization, and RSpec coding and parsing. As an
example of !MySlice's extensibility, and its ability to easily
interface with a wide range of different tools on the back end, we
describe how it integrates !TopHat, an aggregator of data, such as
network measurements and system information, that enrich an
experimenter's view of his or her slice. As an open source project,
!MySlice is being adopted by numerous testbeds, and plug-ins developed
for some testbeds are proving useful for others. This is joint work,
developed in part under the GENI Understanding Federation grant to
Princeton University, The University of Tokyo, and UPMC. Major funding
for !MySlice comes from European Union (!OneLab2, NOVI, !OpenLab, FIBRE)
and French government (F-Lab) grants, and its development has been
accomplished in collaboration with INRIA and other partners of those
projects.