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Progress Report for the GENI Experiment Engine: GEC 19

Contract Deliverables

  • Submitted design document to GPO on GEE Filesystem Design
  • Submitted design document to GPO on GEE Network Design
  • Submitted design document to GPO on GEE Message System Design
  • Demonstrated GENI Experiment Engine Slicelet Creation, experimental run, and teardown in under five minutes at GEC-19

Technical Progress

  • Preallocated four-node InstaGENI PlanetLab slicelets as GENI Experiment Engine Slicelets
  • Developed demonstration-quality webserver to allocate and reclaim GENI Experiment Engine Slicelets, using Google-based authentication
  • Integrated Swift storage engine with Syndicate meta-data server
  • Developed architecture for creation of use-once ("burner") slice credentials and delivery of credentials to user
  • Integrated Fabric as deployment and experiment execution engine

Ongoing Issues

  • We are highly reliant on GENI VLANs for the networking elements of the GENI Experiment Engine, and we need a guarantee that the VLANs that we allocate will be stable over, essentially, the lifetime of GENI -- at a minimum, we require some notice before a VLAN is torn down
  • Need to continually renew the GEE slice on GENI, and reallocate slivers. The GEE, particularly the GEE Compute Engine, is designed as a set of long-running, stable services, not short-run experiments.

Outreach Activities

  • Rick McGeer "Distributed Clouds" keynote presentation at workshop in Dresden
  • Rick McGeer "Distributed Clouds" seminars at TU-Berlin and TU-Kaiserslautern
  • Rick McGeer "Distributed Clouds" lecture at San Jose State University
  • GENI Experiment Engine presentation at GEC-19

Plans for GEC 20

  • Bring filesystem and message system to demo-quality implementation
  • Expand range of actions offered through the website -- show user slicelet status, permit recovery of credential zip file
  • Remove a number of security holes in website -- user email passed in plain-text parameter, in particular.
  • Add hook to permit user to automatically report a bug to GEE team
  • Recruit a small number of experimenters to participate in GEE beta program
  • Investigate design alternatives for GEE Slicelet hosts. We currently run in PlanetLab nodes, but could potentially do this in OpenVZ ProtoGENI images, and/or OpenCloud images
  • Investigate sharing raw PC with VTS. Currently, we need one raw PC per rack, and so does Nick for VTS. That's 40% of the capacity of an InstaGENI rack, which is an excessive use of resources. In both of our cases, we don't need a full PC; we just can't live in a VM.