Cluster-D meetings at GEC7

Day 1: March 16, 1pm - 5pm Agenda and Notes ===

ORCA/BEN

Ilia Baldine
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ORCA software releases, and features:

Bella 2.0
Available now (was 2.1, planned for Feb 1)
+ New substrate API obsoletes COD
+ Lease cancellation
+ Multiple redeem predecessor support
+ Eucalyptus support
+ New broker policies
+ XML-­‐RPC ProtoGENI-­‐like SM interface
+ Global actor registry XML-­‐RPC function
+ Extended NDL support
+ NLR Sherpa driver

Bella 2.1
Panned for ? (was 2.2, planned for June 1)
+ Code hardening, more unit tests, better documentation
+ Broker querying coupled with registry
+ Juniper EX3200 support
+ Multi‐point VLAN slice support (BEN and NLR)
+ Possible:
– Support for newer Eucalyptus release
– Internet2 IDC support
– Gush integration (in cooperation with Gush team)

ViSE

David Irwin
​UMass-Duke demo movie
​slice setup movie

DOME

Brian Lynn, Thijs de Vries
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Since Sept, 2009, have several users running experiments on DOME
+ UMass graduate students
+ Research project with University of Arkansas
+ NSF GENI Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program
+ U of Washington’s Million Node GENI runs on DOME when no other experiments are scheduled

DICloud

Michael Zink
slides?

KANSEI

Mukundan Sridharan
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Progress in Spiral 2:

1. Created v1.1 KanseiGenie Installer
   
2. Ported KanseiGenie to NetEye (Wayne State), and provided support to porting efforts at OKGems (Oklahoma State)
   
3. Extended KanseiGenie Researcher Portal to include baseline federated experimentation
   
4. Completed development to make the switch form Soap to SecureSoap. New version will be rolled out after GEC7.
   
5. Started planning v2.0 of software installer package, including baseline federation
   

Milestones Completed:
KANSEI: S2.d Extend researcher portal for use with Kansei and NetEye (Due 3/16/10)
KANSEI: S2.e Bring up NetEye testbed at WSU (Due 03/16/10)
KANSEI: S2.f Connection plan from Kansei and NetEye to Internet2 (Due 03/16/10)
KANSEI: S2.h Demo experiment using Kansei and NetEye (partially done; Due 07/20/10)

OKGems

PIs: Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Nazanin Rahnavard, Weihua Sheng, Venkatesh Sarangan, Johnson Thomas
Students: Han Zhao, Xinxin Liu, Praveen Khethavath, Li Yu, Nhat Nguyen
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Hardware status:
Dedicated lab space
About 100 sensor nodes (mainly Telosb and Micaz)
About 20 robots

ORCA status:
Installed and configured ORCA (Anacortes 1.2) in local environment successfully.
Built one ORCA local master and one node agent for initial testing.

KanseiGenie status:
Set up a small set of lab sensor nodes into the KanseiGenie framework.
Customized the KanseiGenie web portal.

Robotics VLab status:
A client session, control a robotic arm for arranging an alphabetical pattern

Year 1 Plan 1:
Design and develop drivers for our resource aggregates (PCs and sensors) using ORCA Bella 2.0.
Set up VLAN to stitch distributed resources together.
Deploy field sensor nodes and integrate them into the OKGems framework.
Further design OKGems portal
Give a demo in GEC 8

Year 1 Plan 2:
Modify existing plugins and develop new plugins for ORCA, i.e., plugins of scheduling policies.
Develop spatial-temporal slivers of sensor nodes/networks through TinyHive virtual machine and TinyBee mobile agent. (to be fully completed in Year Two)
Define programmable abstractions in finer granularity

Year 1 Plan 3:
Draft a system design to include robots
Define initial programmable abstractions of actuators and effectors
Remotely control robots over networks (LAN & WAN)

Bella 2.0 Release Features

Aydan Aydan Yumerefendi
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+ New Substrate API

• Simplify integration of new substrates
  
• Simplified IConcreteSet implementation
  

. UnitSet represents a collection of Unit-s
. Unit designed to represent any resource unit, e.g, VM, VLAN, Testbed, etc.

• IShirakoPlugin extension: ISubstrate
  

. Implemented as Substrate and AuthoritySubstrate
. Defines clearly the extension points for a new substrate
. transferIn, modify, transferOut

• New authority Resource Control classes
  

. UnitsControl
. SimpleVMControl
. VMControl
. VLANControl

• First steps to simplify and generalize the web portal
  

. New project: webapp2

+ New drivers and handlers: NLR, Eucalyptus

• NLR
  

. Provisions dynamically a path over NLR

• Eucalyptus
  

. Provisions dynamically a VM from an Eucalyptus cluster
. Can also provision from Amazon EC2 (same API)
. Supports assigning VLANs to VMs
. Requires a patch to Eucalyptus 1.5

+ Simplified actor configuration file format

• Define an actor with a few lines of XML
  

+ Lease cancellation (vacate) support

• Brokers can allocate resources more efficiently
  

+ New controllers: inter-domain, xmlrpc (protogeni)
+ No major new features in the next release

• Primary focus:
  

. Harden and productize existing codebase
. Simplify installation and setup
. Documentation

• If time permits:
  

. SOAP management API
. Integrate Orca in command-line tools and other portals
. Distributed Orca without Tomcat

Actor Registry and XML-­RPC Controller

Anirban Mandal
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+ ORCA Actor Registry

• Snapshot of available actors from various ORCA containers
  

— Users can use this for resource discovery and other queries

• Users can visit ​http://geni.renci.org/actors.php to view current set of actors registered with the registry
  
• Users can also programmatically query the registry using an XML-RPC interface
  

+ XML-RPC Controller

• Goal: Provide an XML-RPC interface to ORCA for experiment control tools and external users
  
• Tools/users would use this interface to
  

. discover available resources
. instantiate and destroy experiment slivers

• Initial version of ProtoGENI-like XML-RPC interface available on an ORCA SM
  
• Generic slice manager acts on behalf of experiment control tools/user
  
• Details of control framework hidden from user
  
• These interfaces provide a minimal set of features
  

. DiscoverResources(), CreateSliver(), DeleteSliver()

• Extended set of features (available later) would include
  

. GetTicket(), RedeemTicket(), UpdateTicket(), UpdateSliver()
. Support for resource representation using NDL

Day 2: March 17, 1pm - 3pm, Agenda and Notes

ERM: Embedded real-time substrate measurements for real-time cross-layer experiments

Keren Bergman, Caroline Lai, Michael Wang
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+ Year 1: Unified measurement Framework architecture
+ Now: get measurements from Polatis, Infinera, etc.
+ Next: experiment use case for GEC8

• Control:
  

. Stand-aline programmable attentuator
. Polatis swithch

LEARN Measurement Handler

Debjyoti Majumder
​slides LEARN measurement handler

+ Measurement handler:

• receives XML-RPC requests
  
• logs in to Polatis/Infinera via TL1
  
• gets measurements
  
• logs out

LEARN Network Integration

Shade EL-Hadik
​slides LEARN network

+ Create an isolated ORCA instance in the lab with a Cisco 3750 switch

• The ORCA Master is now equipped with handlers.
  
• The node agent has drivers installed.
  
• Drivers for accessing the Cisco 6509 switch are available, which we need to modify for Cisco 3750.
  
• Need to test if the handlers of the ORCA master are suitable for the existing drivers of the node agent.
  
• If successful, the Cisco 3750 switch needs to be accessed by node agent for our lab
  
• Finally to set up a VLAN using the switch, node agent, and the ORCA Master.
  

+ Goal: Integrate the LEARN, regional optical network, located in Texas, into the ORCA control framework (GENI Cluster D) by GENI Engineering Conference 8 (July 2010)

IMF

Rudra Dutta ​slides

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​poster, including IMF, ERM and LEARN

iGENI

Joe Mambretti

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3. Cluster-D connectivity

4. Plan for GEC8 and GEC9 demos/experiments

ORCA-BEN + Multi‐point slice demo with several Cluster‐D members + Assist other projects with experiment demonstrations

5. Ongoing Cluster D Interactions

Monthly PI calls
Calls on specific topics
Resource description