Project Number

1779

Project Title

GENI/Ecalyptus Federated Resource Allocation
a.k.a. GENICloud

Technical Contacts

PI: Rick McGeer, HP Labs Rick McGeer
Co-PI: Andy Bavier, PlanetWorks ​acb@cs.princeton.edu
Co-PI: Alex Snoren, U.C. San Diego ​snoeren@cs.ucsd.edu
Co-PI: Yvonne Coady, U. of Victoria ​ycoady@cs.uvic.ca

Participating Organizations

​HP Labs, Palo Alto
​PlanetWorks LLC
​University of California, San Diego
​University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
​University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

GPO Liaison System Engineer

​Vic Thomas

Scope

The GENI facility envisages researchers constructing, deploying, and executing experiments on a variety of test infrastructures. Various large-scale tests, including wide-area storage, content distribution, and some forms of sensing with analysis, require the simultaneous use of both widely distributed sensing and actuating nodes and analysis nodes in large-scale cloud clusters. Eucalyptus is popular, open-source software for building a cloud computing infrastructure. The GENICloud project will build a GENI federation interface for compute clusters running Eucalyptus. This interface will allow Eucalyptus clusters to federate via the Slice-based Federation Architecture (SFA), and will enable experimenters to seamlessly deploy and configure slices spanning PlanetLab and multiple Eucalyptus installations.

The project anticipates devoting approximately 32 nodes at the HP Labs OpenCirrus facility long-term to hosting a Eucalyptus cluster, and opening this to approved GENI researchers. This cluster will be tightly instrumented by HP Labs in order to gather data on cluster usage and resource usage

Current Capabilities

Milestones

Spiral 4

• MilestoneDate(GENICloud: S4.a Help develop a vision for cloud computing in GENI)?
• MilestoneDate(GENICloud: S4.b GENICLoud is Operational)?
• MilestoneDate(GENICloud: S4.c GENICloud based coursework)?
• MilestoneDate(GENICloud: S4.d GENICloud based coursework delivered)?

Project Technical Documents

Quarterly Status Reports

due 31 March 2010
GENICloudStatusMarch2011] [GENICloud Status March 2011?

Spiral 2 Connectivity

Upcoming Demonstrations

GEC 10 Demonstration

Related Projects

​Eucalyptus